51.  Any rational person could see that my father's conduct had been totally and incontrovertibly wrong.

52.  Denver has been on a hot streak the last two weeks.

53.  Denver newspapers have suggested he has been reacting in pique because the bureau once rejected him for a management class.

54.  Denver would seem to have the edge because Shanahan has been there before and is close to quarterback John Elway as well to Bowlen.

55.  Deficit spending has been a fixture of Washington policymaking since the Johnson administration, climbing through each presidency and peaking at $290 billion in 1992 under George Bush.

56.  DEFICIT-PROMISES (Manchester, N.H.) _ For a quarter-century, politicians have been coming to New Hampshire and talking about reducing the federal deficit.

57.  Deficits, even small ones, have been difficult on the Dodgers.

58.  DeFilippo said there have been some "crank" calls, but "everything is being analyzed for its value and being followed up."

59.  DeFillippo said it had never been company policy to mislead customers, but he acknowledged that safeguards against such abuses "were not adequate."

60.  Defining "classic" as a measure of literary merit has been a persistent and recurring theme in this series.