71.   Blue Cross issued a statement that said company policy is to comment only when a decision has been reached to proceed with a new initiatives.

72.   A number of Republicans have sided with Democrats on many amendments this year, arguing that schools need more money to carry out broad new initiatives like annual testing.

73.   After a year of study and stormy dialogue, the panel proposed little in the way of new initiatives.

74.   Adults, for the most part, applauded the new restrictive initiative.

75.   Aides said Clinton may unveil several new initiatives for education, welfare, pensions and perhaps immigration.

76.   Both the Commerce Department and NIST survived the assault, but agency officials are still wary of possible new initiatives to pare down the institute.

77.   Bush leaves for Florida after finishing a swing through Midwestern battleground states, where he was pushing for new initiatives to curb drug abuse, particularly among teenagers.

78.   Bush also opposes abortion, and his election could see new initiatives on that divisive issue.

79.   But as his own office noted last week, it will be hard enough to preserve previously enacted tax cuts and spending hikes without adding costly new initiatives.

80.   But because even properly configured missile defenses would have residual ASAT capabilities, the United States must now pursue new initiatives against space warfare.