71.  Deficit hawks in his administration won an argument to speed up the timing because they saw that Republicans were winning the battle for public opinion.

72.  Deficits went up too, of course, but that's because spending increased even faster than taxes.

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

74.  Definition: Not up to snuff; the lower echelon.

75.  Deflated, the unit takes up less space than a set of golf clubs.

76.  DEFLECTING SECRETS An unspoken rule of hearing a secret is that it's the secret teller's prerogative to bring it up again, not yours.

77.  DeFrantz may not pick up much support from the IOC's athlete members.

78.  Cuban Americans make up more than 700,000 of Miami-Dade County's 2.1 million people.

79.  Cuban Americans make up some 800,000 of the county's 2 million people.

80.  Cuban fans began sizing up the American starter, Scott Erickson, who narrowly escaped a disaster in the first inning because of good fielding.