81.   But the political currents now swirling around the issue appear to have had an unfortunate influence on the outcome of its deliberations.

82.   But the Republican action raises the same kinds of troubling questions that have swirled around Democratic fund-raising in the last year.

83.   But the biggest post-Oscar fuss seemed to be swirling around the documentary award.

84.   But this week, as a controversy swirled around the use of the Playboy Mansion for a Hispanic fund-raiser, they became for a moment among the most visible.

85.   But unlike other Gore backers, Verge is willing to acknowledge the interest in Bradley and the excitement that swirls around his campaign.

86.   By DOROTHY ZINBERG Distributed by New York Times Special Features New America News Service I have an answer to the overheated controversy swirling around the planned expansion of NATO.

87.   By mid-afternoon, gun-metal gray clouds are swirling around us.

88.   Charges of corruption and abuse of power began to swirl around Mrs. Ciller as she ended her term as prime minister.

89.   Chase Senge has always been fascinated by snow globes, those enduringly popular if slightly cheesy souvenirs in which snowflakes swirl around alligators and polar bears alike.

90.   Carey and Clinton may have more in common than their mind-boggling capacity for being unaware of corruption and wrongdoing that is swirling all around them.