111.  The balloon owes its pumpkin shape to tendons running along the thin polyethylene surface that take most of the load.

112.  The back deck took up most of the back yard.

113.  The center takes most of her attention, but Chavez Cano does not let the police off easy when it comes to the slayings of women in the desert.

114.  The electric power sources are now so large that they take up most of the troop seating area in the personnel carriers.

115.  The fact that opinion polls suggested that it was the Republicans who would take most of the blame for a government shutdown made the decision all the easier.

116.  The disturbance that brought rain to southern California Thursday will move into northern Baja taking most of the damp weather into Mexico.

117.  The haulers removing the earthquake rubble are taking most of it to recycling centers set up throughout the area.

118.  The half-million-dollar rehabilitation, part of which was subsidized with the charter fee paid by Scully, took most of last spring.

119.  The legislation takes away most of the discretion of judges by forcing them to rely on a schedule of allowable expenses written by the Internal Revenue Service.

120.  The military trial took most of the month of July.