81.  As for the Dodgers sale, local officials were hopeful about what it would mean.

82.  As for local officials, however, with a much-dreaded confrontation averted, they declared victory.

83.  As for local officials, with a much-dreaded confrontation averted, they declared victory.

84.  As in the wake of every major wildfire, local elected officials moved to beef up hillside building regulations.

85.  Around dawn on Wednesday almost all of the hostages were released, according to local officials.

86.  As local officials explained, plaintively, there had never been public access to that beach, except by boat.

87.  As in most of China, a local official has wide latitude in economic matters, as long as his or her political patron is secure.

88.  As local officials counted ballot by ballot, and chad by chad, the candidates and their top aides again contended for the moral high ground.

89.  As helicopters helped firefighters pinpoint the remaining hot spots, local officials began to measure the toll of one of the most serious fires here in years.

90.  Ashcroft will also be responsible for communicating the threat to law enforcement, state and local officials, and the public.