71.   As a top student at the University of Santo Domingo, he became a student assistant in anatomy in his third year of medical school.

72.   As for earning a spot with the Mariners in only his third year in professional ball, Cruz was not making any promises.

73.   As Russia closes in on its third year of economic growth after nearly a decade of recession, people have more spending money.

74.   As Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew moves into his third year on the job, this is still a system with an old physical plant and an ungainly bureaucracy.

75.   As the National Football League heads into its third year of free agency, the realities of the system have settled in.

76.   Astoundingly, it was the third straight year a Botterill OT goal has beaten those same Huskies in that same tournament.

77.   Asked who left a neater room, the staff unanimously chose men for the third year in a row.

78.   As the teams begin the third year of interleague play, they have played too much bad baseball to wonder who owns Southern California.

79.   At the same time, we also knew the third year that we had to win.

80.   Because Cleveland gave Little a two-year contract with an option for a third year.