81.   A mild recession already had been underway, this story goes.

82.   A recent Los Angeles Times story goes so far as to suggest that Bush and Co. are actually orchestrating efforts to speed up the slowing down of the economy.

83.   After dinner one night, the story goes, he felt bloated and undid the bottom button of his vest, creating a new fashion.

84.   After they had all made it to shore, the story goes, the tribal leader ordered that the canoes be burned.

85.   But as Steinbrenner stories go, this one was dead in a New York minute, receiving virtually no national play.

86.   But as has always been the case for CNN, when the story went away, the audience went away.

87.   But I was determined that the stories would not go the way of their tellers.

88.   But so goes the story of man.

89.   But that is always the case after a hot story goes cold.

90.   But once the accurate numbers were reported, the story went away.