71.  Defibrillators cost about $20,000 and a comparable amount to implant, but they are credited with saving thousands of lives since their introduction in 1985.

72.  Defibrillators now are implanted in about 32,000 patients a year worldwide, of which about 25,000 are in the U.S.

73.  Defibrillators, which can do the job in time, are a familiar prop on hospital television dramas, where they are wheeled on-screen _ ponderous and complex machines.

74.  Denver was a No. 8 seed, as the Timberwolves are now.

75.  Deficit and other targets agreed on with the International Monetary Fund are sure to slip.

76.  Deficit hawks rejoice that Rivlin, whose expenditure-cutting swoops are the fiercest of all, is to head the OMB.

77.  Deficit reduction is key, analysts said, because it could help control the government's costs at a time interest rates are running at 20 percent or more.

78.  Deficit-cutting efforts are pushing the EU into recession, said d'Estaing, who now leads the junior partner in France's ruling coalition.

79.  Deficits are a remote abstraction when the public has other things to think about, however.

80.  Deficits are expected to balloon toward the end of the decade, primarily because health expenditures under Medicare and Medicaid will soar.