81.   Both parties are also readying much broader tax overhaul plans, though it seems unlikely that such sweeping change could be carried out in an election year.

82.   Both parties are raising campaign funds at record levels, in anticipation that some reforms will take effect after this election year.

83.   Both sides see the dam vote as a test of fiscal resolve in tight budget times, and one of the bigger environmental votes in this election year.

84.   Both suggestions proved politically unacceptable in an election year.

85.   - The weight given to values and cultural decay in this election year.

86.   A new showdown over Iraq is something that the Clinton administration has, by most accounts, sought desperately to avoid in an election year.

87.   A federal judge has ordered the residents removed from the entrance, but in a presidential election year the government is reluctant to force a showdown.

88.   A presidential election year is not usually productive legislatively, but cleaning up the election fund-raising system could prove an exception to that rule.

89.   A Senate panel has resuscitated legislation to grant the president greater authority to negotiate trade agreements, a notion all but left for dead in this election year.

90.   A widower about to enter an election year, Shepherd has high approval ratings.