71.   Even so, in the last hours of his administration, he was still trying to negotiate a settlement in the Middle East.

72.   Even so, Iorio said, the phones were completely swamped, particularly in the last few hours.

73.   Especially in the last hour, you may catch yourself trying to find your way through what amounts to a narrative maze.

74.   Finally, my brothers stopped playing and went in the clubhouse to watch the last hour of the draft.

75.   For the last hour or so you have cast your floating line into the soft current below the Nesowadnehunk Deadwater and the falls.

76.   French-made Corolle dolls, with more lifelike faces than Barbie dolls, also were doing well at Au Printemps in the frantic last hours of the season.

77.   French stocks closed mixed as a decline in U.S. shares in the last hour of Paris trading cut prices from earlier highs.

78.   He is clinging to his last hours on stage, as the spotlight shifts to the rising careers of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.

79.   He was deeply concerned about his legacy and until the last hours of his presidency, he was trying desperately to fashion a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.

80.   He was entering the dark room fighters go to in the last hours to get ready for the kind of hand-to-hand combat few people ever willingly experience.