71.   But its sales continued to grow at an anemic rate, reinforcing concerns about plans by the telephone giant to keep pace in the fast-growing communications industry.

72.   But plans by the federal government to hire plainclothes officers to guard commercial airliners and passengers from hijackers come with questions.

73.   But such plans by the players would have been moot.

74.   But the courts had upheld a plan by New York state to tax goods sold by American Indian businesses to non-American Indian customers.

75.   But the courts had upheld a plan by New York state to tax goods sold by Indian businesses to non-Indian customers.

76.   But the Northern Alliance has installed itself in Kabul, its military progress far outpacing plans by the international community for a stable, post-Taliban Afghanistan.

77.   But the plan by New York that was upheld by the courts provided a way of getting around such restrictions.

78.   But the reprieve Thursday will effectively accelerate that plan by putting the weakest affiliates under bank management.

79.   Cable television companies have pleaded with the FCC to block plans by telephone companies to offer television service.

80.   Buying the team might also be a defensive strategy against any local plans by ESPN.