71.  Earlier this month, party leaders scrambled to hold together a BJP government in Gujarat, a western state the party won in state elections this spring.

72.  Even California, the most Democratic western state, felt the jolt.

73.  Every Western state except California is experiencing above-average job and population growth.

74.  Even without national forests, the agency has vast holdings in Alaska, Nevada, Oregon and other Western states.

75.  Farther west, a series of storms will move through the Northwest, bringing periods of unsettled weather to the western states.

76.  Feinstein plans to introduce a bill later this month to force FERC to impose temporary wholesale price controls on energy sold in the Western states.

77.  FERC is probing whether Enron manipulated energy markets in California and other Western states.

78.  Final figures will be released in mid-May, with a breakdown of price growth in Eastern and Western states, and the country as a whole.

79.  For cellular services HFCL, Shinawatra and Bezek set up another company Fascel Ltd and won the right to operate mobile services in the western state of Gujarat.

80.  Four years later, the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco made it all but impossible to sustain the suits in the federal courts of nine Western states.