71.   If adopted, the proposal would have the effect of strongly discouraging Southern Baptist congregations from calling women as pastors.

72.   If four votes are changed, the group said, the proposal would have the two-thirds support needed for a constitutional amendment.

73.   In a surprising turn of events, Craig Thursday introduced a measure to make those backgrounds checks mandatory, as the Democratic proposal would have.

74.   In this version of journalism, all politicians are manipulative, all business people are venal and all proposals have ulterior motives.

75.   It eventually became clear to Pataki that those proposals would have to be jettisoned to enact the tax cuts and other welfare changes.

76.   Later, he denied that his proposal had political underpinnings.

77.   Lt. Steve Allen, of the LAPD Bomb Squad, said he believes the proposal will have wide national support.

78.   Mayor Durnin of Pelham vehemently disagrees, saying his proposal has nothing to do with race and everything to do with crime.

79.   McCain said Republicans are anxious to work out a bipartisan solution to curb runaway Medicare spending, but he said the next proposal has to come from the president.

80.   Molinari, a Republican, said he realized his proposal had little if any chance of success in Albany.