81.   Lobbyists watching the issue say the FCC is expected to make a decision as early as this week.

82.   Lawmakers have said they want to leave town as early as Friday.

83.   Mair assured Hiebert that the symbols were not Chinese, if the artifact is as early as has been dated.

84.   Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers reversed earlier forecasts and told clients that the Fed might cut interest rates as early as July.

85.   Milosevic has threatened to put the three men on trial as early as Friday, but has not said what the charges would be.

86.   Neither the league nor the union is expected to resume talks until after the Christmas holiday, possibly as early as Monday.

87.   Naveh said this could be as early as next week.

88.   Nursing school administrators and students say recruitment needs to start at a young age, perhaps as early as elementary school, when children begin pondering their futures.

89.   Onvia.com, an online marketplace for smaller firms, plans to sell stock to the public for the first time as early as this week.

90.   Other stocks rallied on hopes of an interest rate cut as early as this month as economic growth and inflation slow.