61.  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.

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

63.  Deficit spending could slow to about 3 percent of GDP in 1996, or some $20 billion, Schneider said.

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

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

66.  Definitely "Gilmore Girls" on the WB, a sweet, sharp, family-friendly show about a single mom and her teenaged daughter.

67.  DEFINITELY NOT A 'MUG OF THE WEEK'CANDIDATE "Did you hear about the Amish woman who filed for divorce?"

68.  DEFINITELY NOT DIRTY Did you hear about the two little kids in a hospital who were laying next to each other?

69.  Definitional disagreements about such questions have bedeviled international forums for decades, as they did last week at a meeting of Islamic nations in Malaysia.

70.  Definitions aside, the French foreign minister appeared vexed about the appearance that developed democracies are lecturing others.