71.  Companies in European nations like Italy and Germany rely more on bank loans than on stock issuance for financing, he said.

72.  Crude oil futures rose on speculation that European nations might ban imports of Iranian crude, after European nations recalled their ambassadors from Iran during the past few days.

73.  Crude oil rose on speculation that European nations may join in a U.S. ban on oil from Iran.

74.  Despite threats of retaliation by European nations that do business in those countries, the House without dissent approved a tougher Senate version of the bill.

75.  Eleven European nations cut their interest rates to a nearly uniform level in an unusual display of unity.

76.  European nations and Canada all have introduced the equivalent of the dollar coin.

77.  European nations and their former colonies backed Ruggiero.

78.  European nations are currently seeking to meet requirements to join a single European currency as set forth in the Maastricht Treaty for economic and monetary union.

79.  European nations have strongly favored the treaty, but they need the support of Japan and Russia, particularly, to achieve that threshold.

80.  European nations in the Contact Group should stop talking about yielding ground to Milosevic and require free access to Kosovo for the war crimes tribunal.