71.   Seismologists believe the Kobe quake may have signaled the beginning of a period of activity in western Japan that could last decades.

72.   Signaling the beginning of their administration, giddy new Cabinet ministers posed for photos with Dutch Queen Beatrix outside her Noordeinde Palace in The Hague.

73.   The government said it does not signal the beginning of a new academic year.

74.   The radical abstraction of Jackson Pollock signaled the beginning of the abstract expressionist movement that gave America its own place in modern art.

75.   The suit for compensation for mental anguish could signal the beginning of U.S.-style litigation fever in China.

76.   The Russian move into southwestern Chechnya, the first since the battle for Grozny earlier this year, seemed to signal the beginning of a ground assault.

77.   When relatives and friends noticed the departures, they discovered the group believed that Denver would be destroyed by an earthquake that would signal the beginning of the apocalypse.

78.   Iraq said Thursday that it hoped riots that broke out in poor suburbs of Tehran signalled the beginning of the end for the government in neighbouring Iran.

79.   And he denied the latest failure signalled the beginning of the end.

80.   This might signal the beginning of a rise of telecoms prices but it was too early to say, he commented.