71.   The Arab League meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, did not exactly inspire confidence.

72.   The auction houses wanted their fall sales, which ended Thursday, to inspire confidence.

73.   The car inspired confidence, even in a freak Michigan sleet storm, and the ride was firm but comfortable.

74.   The comment undid efforts by the Italian Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, to inspire confidence in the oft-battered lira.

75.   The breakdown of who gets searched is also secret, but anecdotes abound, and the results have not always inspired public confidence in the system.

76.   The drug inspires special confidence among researchers because they understand with considerable precision what it is doing.

77.   The fantasy is to cook a holiday meal on the kind of appliance that inspires confidence, that gleams with purpose.

78.   The fact that almost all the early subpoenas for information have gone to Democratic fund-raising people has not inspired confidence that Thompson will be fair.

79.   The error may seem small, but it did not inspire confidence among people who know the difference.

80.   The government has done little to inspire confidence.