71.   The earlier strikes were deemed to be illegal on the grounds that workers failed to appoint a skeleton staff to serve clients.

72.   The lodges are being operated with skeleton staff from other ethnic groups, the manger said.

73.   The textile factory continues to run on a skeleton staff, turning out printed cloth praising Rally for Democracy rebels.

74.   The U.S. Mission to international organizations in Geneva remained open Wednesday with a skeleton staff.

75.   The U.N. evacuated all but a skeleton staff to the northern Australian city of Darwin early today.

76.   The U.S. embassy, which issues U.S. visas and passports, said it would only handle emergency situations with a small skeleton staff.

77.   Today, a skeleton staff of pay-sacrificing loyalists struggles to put out the three surviving publications of his Manager group.

78.   Government offices and banks opened but were operating with skeleton staff.

79.   He said the UN mission was not suspending operations altogether in Tajikistan, but it would only keep a skeleton staff in the troubled former Soviet republic.

80.   Her office now has only a skeleton staff of two secretaries and three domestic staff in her Kensington Palace home.