71.  Another opponent, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, said the measure would allow federal officials to usurp the power of local law enforcement officials.

72.  Arizona officials had proposed splitting entrance fees with federal officials.

73.  As a federal official, Armey benefits from a generous health care plan and equally generous retirement benefits to which he contributes only a fraction of the cost.

74.  Army engineers and other federal officials knowledgeable about the report declined public comment Wednesday.

75.  As a former federal antidrug official, Safir has intimate knowledge of the problem.

76.  As a result, federal officials and industry critics said, they are seeing several troubling trends.

77.  As a result, federal officials have raided his home, seized his computers, and placed him before a grand jury investigating ELF and ALF activities.

78.  As federal officials stood by, confused about their legal right to restrain them, hundreds of Cubans broke out and dispersed across the surrounding countryside.

79.  As a backdrop, one federal official said that NTSB and FBI investigators were clashing, in marked contrast to their public posture of full cooperation.

80.  As a result, federal officials are pressuring the local agencies, and they, in turn, are pointing the finger at Wall Street.