71.   Ickes, whose wife sat behind him in the hearing room, acknowledged that mistakes were made in the campaign, without saying by whom.

72.   Iain Pears, the best-selling detective fiction writer who lives in Oxford, said by telephone that he had just missed witnessing the theft.

73.   If said by any other rock deity, that statement would come across as egomaniacal hyperbole, but from Brian Wilson, it sounds strangely endearing and self-effacing.

74.   In his state of the union message last week, Clinton said he favored raising the minimum wage but did not say by how much.

75.   In March one of his own staff lawyers was murdered, witnesses say by the paramilitary police, known as Brimob, which has replaced Indonesian troops in Aceh.

76.   In the East they say by repeating things they continue.

77.   Intel declined to say by how much the three plants would increase capacity.

78.   It also advocates making it easier for businesses or consumers who generate their own electricity, say by solar panels, to sell it into the power grid.

79.   Ioannis Kasoulides, foreign minister of Cyprus, said by phone Wednesday night that he did not believe Belgrade had demanded a cease-fire or that Kyprianou had requested one.

80.   It is hard to say by how much.