71.  Once the talks began, Barshefsky and Sperling realized the Chinese side was treading water.

72.  Orlando has been treading water awaiting the return of Penny Hardaway.

73.  Other than that, he treaded water, which was all the Niners could ask of him.

74.  Refusing to just tread water, four other Phoenix-area hotels or resorts are spending big bucks to create more-elaborate pools or water parks.

75.  Says Sigmund Freud, says Zonk, says anyone else who has tried to study this team as it has treaded water this season.

76.  She reached down to touch her foot, treading water with her left leg to keep her head up, feeling in the blackness with her left hand.

77.  So the place just treads water, a threat only to itself.

78.  STOCKS ARE MIXED AS NASDAQ FALLS Stocks were mixed during a week when they mostly treaded water.

79.  Stocks basically treaded water.

80.  Some of the volatility is the result of hedge funds trying to tread water until the end of the year by selling futures, analysts said.