71.  As for pricing, de la Vega doesn't see providers, such as BellSouth, boosting prices from current levels any time soon.

72.  Generale de Banque SA, Belgium's largest bank, played down speculation it will need to form an alliance with other banks to maintain current levels of profitability.

73.  Gore would continue the current Social Security benefit levels and provide government matching funds to help workers set up retirement accounts above and beyond Social Security.

74.  Giuliani said the city should continue its current level of financing, but would divide the money between CUNY and other educational institutions that would teach the remedial courses.

75.  Given Summer's latest comment, "I think the Federal Reserve approves the current level of the dollar," Matsushita said.

76.  Given the current level of the stock market, it is not hard to understand why managers would want to hedge that way.

77.  Given the current paltry level of bank interest rates, his additional cost of lost interest income, minus the taxes on his interest income, would be trivial.

78.  Given TV's current level of kissy-kissy celebrity journalism, it seems unlikely that an impartial interviewer would have thrown any harder punches.

79.  GM raised its quarterly dividend to the current level of 30 cents from 20 cents last spring.

80.  Gretzky then opted for Martin Brodeur, Curtis Joseph and Eddie Belfour, three men whose current levels of play do not match their shiny risumis.