81.   TO get the company, the town had to offer assurances of a speedy approval process.

82.   Visiting the disaster site on Friday, Tom Ridge, the White House homeland security director, offered assurances that the state would get the entire amount.

83.   When her mother said surely this would not include bank robbery or prostitution, Ms. Riley offered no assurances.

84.   With most of the early action expected in the House, GOP senators offered assurances that they will not drop the ball on the conservative agenda.

85.   Yeltsin has offered assurances that Russia will halt shipments that could help Iran become a nuclear power, but U.S. intelligence reports indicate that the transfers continue.

86.   Powell also offered assurances that the United States did not have nuclear missiles targeted on Russia or any other nation.

87.   PLO leader Yasser Arafat offered fresh assurances Wednesday that he will protect the security of Israelis when Palestinian self-rule is expanded into the West Bank.

88.   After offering assurances about home-grown beef, health officials found more diseased cows.

89.   Aidid also offered assurances that humanitarian aid deliveries will not be interrupted.

90.   And NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes offered assurances, meanwhile, that NATO was not just a military alliance, but one of countries with shared political values.