71.   That tactic lays claim to the Republican taunt that something is better than nothing, adding a Hippocratic injunction that any bill should at least do no harm.

72.   That is what Clinton has laid claim to, while his opponent, Bob Dole, has reached into the past to give meaning to his campaign.

73.   The ballplayers first laid claim to the land for pickup games.

74.   The college football leviathans have risen to the top, and both are contemplating undefeated seasons -- and the possibility of laying claim to the mythical national championship.

75.   The city lays claim to the soul and never goes away.

76.   The government must have laid claim to ownership of the sky when no one was looking.

77.   The employee cafeteria at the Renaissance Vinoy in St. Petersburg, Fla., lays claim to feeding Calvin Coolidge.

78.   The enduring anguish of many elders lays continuing claim on our conscience.

79.   The fourth, from a Washington suburb, lays no claim to a military family.

80.   The Irish Constitution, after all, lays claim to the six counties that constitute Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom.