81.   Pain experts praise the protection as a crucial step to improve patient care.

82.   Pastor also said that the crucial next step was the counting of ballots, some already tainted by apparent ineptitude.

83.   Ali urged President Soeharto to initiate political reform by taking the crucial first step.

84.   After having accomplished the crucial step, the financial institutions will then be able to extend new loans to the real sector.

85.   Another thorn in trade relations is the U.S. refusal to formally recognize Russia as a market economy, a crucial step before Russia can join the World Trade Organization.

86.   Another crucial step comes just as the game ends.

87.   Avoiding a monopoly investigation is a crucial regulatory step for the airlines, because a probe could tie up the deal for months or even block it.

88.   Avoiding a monopoly investigation is a crucial regulatory step for the airlines, because a probe could tie up the deal for months or even destroy it.

89.   But many arms control experts see it as a crucial first step toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

90.   Croatia, Bosnia and what remains of Yugoslavia exchanged weapons data Tuesday, the first crucial step toward a comprehensive arms control accord.