71.   In the new guidelines, that purpose is explicitly stated, giving commercial considerations much higher priority than before.

72.   Industry officials have long urged that change, betting that the commerce department would be more inclined to give a higher priority to U.S. competitive interests.

73.   It addressed an issue that voters give a higher priority than health care, yet it barely squeaked through.

74.   Indeed, Edwards seems to place a higher priority on education and visits a public school every week.

75.   It appears that the regulatory agencies recently have placed a higher priority on achieving some cleanup, Salva added.

76.   Its leader seems to place higher priority on a lucrative sale to China of Awacs spy planes equipped with the most sophisticated Israeli-developed technology.

77.   Mitulski and others who have lost loved ones to AIDS wondered why it has not been a higher priority earlier.

78.   Medicare should give a higher priority to reducing medical errors and improving health care delivery to patients nearing the end of life, a congressional advisory commission has recommended.

79.   Most relevant to McCain, it views paying off the national debt as a higher priority than slashing income taxes.

80.   Most voters actually put a higher priority on reducing the federal deficit.