71.   Otherwise, the industry might be in the late stages of a maturing phase rather than early stages, some fund executives said.

72.   Part of the reason, several NBC executives said, was that the show began the season in a slump.

73.   Other proposals, real estate executives said at the time, included a comedy club called the Laugh Factory and a restaurant called Empire!

74.   Planet Hollywood International Inc. plans to expand more into lodging and gaming, company executives said.

75.   Rosenthal, Inquirer executives said, resisted pressures to tilt away from sweeping city, regional, national and international coverage toward town-by-town local coverage.

76.   Should it rise considerably, King stands to gain, the executives said.

77.   Some personal computer makers expect to announce PCs based on the Pentium Pro chip later this year, the Intel executive said.

78.   Some of those talks were television-related, as Steinbrenner sought a way to build leverage with Cablevision, said one executive with knowledge of the early discussions.

79.   Some networks refused to run it, say TiVo executives.

80.   Terry Barwick, director of corporate affairs at Vodafone, said executives from his company and Airtouch had talked in recent weeks.