71.   Evidence of strong economic growth could prompt central bankers to raise rates at its next policy meeting to stave off inflation.

72.   Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday repeated a warning he made last week that the central bank might raise interest rates to stave off inflation.

73.   For decades, the two countries have helped stave off nuclear war with the principle of so-called mutually assured destruction.

74.   Finding a drug that can stave off virus resistance will be important to long-term management of the disease, experts say.

75.   For one, the White House press corps, itching for a controversy to stave off boredom, is more likely to make tempests out of minor campaign flaps.

76.   For businesses, the biggest issue remains staving off the threat of blackouts.

77.   Fortunately for the Yankees in those early series it was the Rangers and Orioles hitters who were the ones trying to stave off superior pitching in those playoff rounds.

78.   For years the company staved off union organizing drives by keeping pay at or near the top of the industry.

79.   For more than a decade, the Milsteins fought in court to stave off condemnation of their site.

80.   Fuld says its client launched a pre-emptive advertising attack when it was most timely and staved off a loss of market share.