1.   For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them.

2.   Big industrial companies like DaimlerChrysler and Siemens are converting their own books and prodding their suppliers to deal in euros as quickly as possible.

3.   A sudden collapse of Long-Term Capital would have left many of them with risky one-way bets on their own books.

4.   But family members will certainly enjoy reading the results and making their own books.

5.   Does such exposure raise ethical questions about news shows being used by networks or news anchors to promote their own books?

6.   In the process, the children create their own books.

7.   In White Plains, N.Y., language-arts specialist Laura Havis has kids make their own books by writing words and drawing pictures to match.

8.   Moreover, borrowers facing higher rates turn increasingly from conventional to adjustable-rate mortgages, which originators are more likely to keep on their own books.

9.   Some towns are even publishing their own books.

10.   The president of the seminary, Duke McCall, told the professors that they should write their own books about the Bible instead of criticizing Oates.