71.   For instance, Putin took his oath of office using the same red, leather-covered copy of the constitution that Yeltsin once did.

72.   For the new statewide officeholders, the swearing-in begins Friday, when Cornyn takes the oath of office from a notary public he has not yet selected.

73.   For some reason, the Bush administration does not, insisting the administration did not begin until the day after Bush took his oath of office.

74.   For a man who had been under continual fire since taking the oath of office, it was a monumental lapse.

75.   Four years ago, Weicker stood in freezing rain to take his oath.

76.   From the minute they take the oath, they get an airplane ticket.

77.   From the day I took the oath of office, I pledged that our nation would maintain the best-equipped, best-trained and best-prepared military on earth.

78.   Gov. Pete Wilson suffered tremendously for seeking a second term in Sacramento, only to launch a short-lived presidential candidacy within eight months of taking the oath.

79.   He did this with some of his friends from Brooklyn, who made a grand gesture of taking the oath of enlistment in Grand Central Terminal.

80.   Had the pundits held sway, Oscar Goodman would not be taking the oath of office Monday morning.