71.   Furthermore, owners are happy with the presence since last July of Paul Beeston in the New York office as president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball.

72.   Gingrich had been chastised by the House ethics committee for allowing Gaylord to operate from his congressional office as a staff member.

73.   GE Appliances, based in Louisville, Ky., said it is closing its office as part of a realignment of its customer response offices around the country.

74.   Goheen, his high school counselor, remembers Watson coming into her office as a sophomore to ask about taking the ACT.

75.   Hard-hitting tactics have emerged in the Assembly district represented by Debra Mazzarelli of Brookhaven, who won office as a Powell protege but recently converted from Republican to Democrat.

76.   Harry Truman, only four months in office as president, took a careful look at the condition.

77.   He also signed a bill reopening all federal government offices as of today.

78.   He came into office as part of an elected slate of six new officers, all white, who blamed the incumbents for the backsliding.

79.   He has a tough act to follow in Zell Miller, who leaves office as one of the most popular governors in state history.

80.   Harris, who took office as secretary of state three months after the ruling by her predecessor, did not respond to requests for comment Friday.