71.   After a while, as in the Hamptons, you suspect that everybody else, including each playwright, is having a better time than you are.

72.   Afterall, if you can boil water, you can make a pasta dinner in less time than it takes to make a run for the Taco Bell border.

73.   Afterward, Barbara spent more time than ever at home with sons Jeb and George W.

74.   Against Detroit, Khabibulin stood on his head more times than a circus clown.

75.   Against the Broncos, Mitchell obviously got more playing time than planned, albeit without significant impact one way or the other.

76.   All had lost their last big fight more to time than to their opponent.

77.   All things considered, Barney and Big Bird might have an easier time than their media bosses Thursday as the legislative battle begins over federal funding for public broadcasting.

78.   Both groups believe they can make much better time than Fossett because they will fly at higher altitudes, where the speed of the jet stream is greater.

79.   But as a general rule, the purer technology companies, those selling software or hardware, should have an easier time than those selling content, they say.

80.   But analysts cautioned the economic tour-de-force was more a marker of good times past than a portent of things to come.