71.   For Europe, it was another day of missed opportunities, missed putts and deflating defeats.

72.   For Putnam, it was a missed opportunity.

73.   For the Spurs, who were swept last year by the Lakers in the conference final, it was a missed opportunity.

74.   For Johnny Avila and Hector Lopez, boxing has been about missed opportunities.

75.   For Les Taniuk, a member of the anti-Communist Rukh party in the Ukrainian parliament, the John Deere deal represents a missed opportunity.

76.   For some workers, the blizzard represents a missed opportunity for a paycheck rather than a lost vacation day.

77.   For the favored Stars, the night was a series of missed opportunities, a boatload of chances that went for naught.

78.   For the voters, the real sadness here arises from the missed opportunity.

79.   For U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who spent Wednesday talking about missed opportunities to increase congressional strength, Bush was a bright spot.

80.   Gingrich used his meeting with reporters to complain once again about what he described as a missed opportunity for budget negotiations between Republican congressional leaders and Clinton.