81.   Chinese companies are booking television air time for a year in advance these days, Lai said.

82.   Clinton has argued that broadcasters should provide free air time to politicians in exchange for their federal licenses, to lessen the pressure to raise money to buy commercials.

83.   Clinton first suggested the idea of compulsory free air time for political candidates last summer.

84.   Comparing the prices of air time is harder, because it is sold on a variety of different price bases, but it is also down sharply.

85.   Companies like this buy air time at wholesale rates from larger cellular companies, then resell it at retail prices to consumers.

86.   Coke will flood the airwaves with commercials, eating up more air time than it will take runners to finish the Olympic marathon.

87.   Companies including Hoechst AG, Glaxo Wellcome Plc, and Astra AB have new advertising campaigns ready to go as soon as they can purchase air time.

88.   Critics say the network was repaid for its loyalty to Yeltsin when, after the election, it no longer had to cede air time for educational programming.

89.   Competing for air time with the O.J. Simpson verdict, President Clinton pushed hard for a jubilant reprise handshake on the White House lawn.

90.   CuresNow, a nonprofit advocacy group, has already bought another week of air time in the capital and may show it elsewhere if fund-raising allows.