71.   Although the landscape changed this past week from the South to the industrial Midwest, the texture of the campaign did not.

72.   Always a volatile region, Israel and the Palestinians have demonstrated over the past few weeks just how precarious their relationship can be.

73.   AMG Data says this past week was especially heavy.

74.   An exception came this past week, when the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Lakers cropped up on the same radar screen.

75.   America reveres its democracy, its Constitution, its presidency, and the past weeks have done damage to American belief in all three.

76.   American commanders have said repeatedly over the past week that they do not intend for American forces to be in charge of maintaining basic law and order in Haiti.

77.   American diplomats acknowledged this past week that the offer presented to Milosevic was more forthcoming to him than one that he had rejected last winter.

78.   An improvement in the weather in the past few weeks, however, cleared the way for planting.

79.   Amtrak spokeswoman Karen Dunn said the problems were minor compared with the service that the rail provided to Americans during the past week.

80.   An Agriculture Department report released late Monday showed the condition of the corn crop had improved only slightly in the past week.