71.   Blue Cross has been unable to stem its losses from Medex by offering seniors a less expensive managed care alternative.

72.   Bond prices also fell, although they cut their losses from an early sell-off.

73.   -- Changes the way steel, automobile and other manufacturers deduct operating losses from prior year income.

74.   -- If there is significant blood loss from a surface wound -- say, a cut foot -- apply direct pressure with hands or a clean cloth.

75.   - Population losses from earlier decades left behind people better able to deal with economic challenges.

76.   A federal grand jury indicted Daiwa on charges that it concealed the loss from U.S. bank regulators for weeks after learning about the problem in July.

77.   A downturn in economic growth will make it more difficult for these companies to absorb losses from tens of trillions of yen in defaulted loans.

78.   A drop in usage of offshore barges and losses from foreign currency exchanges contributed to the weaker results for J. Ray McDermott, the company said.

79.   A loss from the investment banking business was offset by strong results from Mercury.

80.   A push by Islacom also could hurt market leaders Piltel and Smart Communications Inc., because of growing concern about losses from cloning of analog phones.