71.   Not surprisingly, the sting operations have been seen as an annoyance by some of the stores that have been stung.

72.   Over the past three years, it has become difficult to keep pace with the sting operations that have been directed at politicians at City Hall.

73.   One is to develop a strategy to improve screening and training and to step up sting operations that lure officers into situations that test their integrity.

74.   Police have upped the ante with a series of half-day sting operations.

75.   Peterson said Thompson had banned smoking on school grounds and allowed teen-agers to participate in sting operations to expose retailers who sold cigarettes to minors.

76.   Police officers are not normally allowed to infiltrate suspicious organizations, to conduct wiretaps, to conduct sting operations or even to plea-bargain in any formal way.

77.   Starr set up a sting operation to trap Monica Lewinsky, although she had no criminal record to justify it morally.

78.   Sting operations are illegal under Mexican law.

79.   Sting operations are not legal under Mexican statutes.

80.   Sting operations fashioned after efforts pioneered by the U.S. Marshals Service will be used to lure fugitives into police traps, police officials said.