71.   An aide to DeLay prevented Obey from escalating the tiff, which had started as a verbal skirmish over campaign finance reform.

72.   An impressive feat considering he started as a true freshman.

73.   And all he wanted was to start as a freshman.

74.   Amy Fine Collins, who has been called a muse to Geoffrey Beene, started as a scholar of American impressionism before writing about fashion for Vanity Fair.

75.   And so what started as a simple impetus to save open land evolved into the much more sophisticated effort to preserve a garden and create an institution.

76.   And the company is able to train and keep people such as Huffman, who started as a secretary and is completing her MBA with company tuition reimbursements.

77.   And what started as a lark is leading to a trip down the aisle next month.

78.   And while it started as a reaction and a rebellion, it held on by creating its own orthodoxy.

79.   Anderson, heading into his fourth season out of Georgia, preferred the role the Rockets could offer to start as a shooting guard.

80.   Anestis started as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Pittsburgh, then headed a railroad holding company, Guilford Transportation Industries, that a client had created.