71.   South American men love the Laser, but the region has few female sailors.

72.   Some regions have natural favorites and some are attaching themselves to hot teams.

73.   Ten years ago, the region had more than twice that many, Lieser said.

74.   The Atlantic City-Cape May region has the highest unemployment rate in New Jersey, according to the latest Labor Department figures.

75.   The Basque region has an active separatist group that for years has used bomb attacks and kidnappings to fight Madrid.

76.   The central question in Chechnya, as it was in Lithuania, is whether the breakaway region has a reasonable claim to self-determination.

77.   The numbers indicate the region has a bright economic picture, according to a local analyst.

78.   The order of the primaries would rotate so each region would have an opportunity to be first.

79.   The order would rotate every four years so that no one region had a lock on being first.

80.   The Pacific Rim region has the fastest-growing economies in the world, and Sprint has profited from its growth.