1.  Departments that haven't received their appropriations for fiscal 1996 were forced to begin furloughing employees after the expiration at midnight Friday of their temporary authority to spend money.

2.  Democrats were forced to support tax increases to maintain spending for the social programs they championed.

3.  Demonstrators were forced to walk through metal detectors to get to the rally area.

4.  Daiwa already was forced to cease its operations in the U.S., for waiting two months to disclose its losses to banking regulators.

5.  Desmon Farmer was forced to leave the game for USC's final possession after tweaking his ankle on a foul with 38 seconds remaining.

6.  Developers and investors were forced to raise cash by selling stock to the public to repay billions of debt coming due.

7.  Digital Domain was forced to dole out shots to its rival ILM and others.

8.  Disgruntled customers are forced to tell the same story every time they call about a particular problem.

9.  De la Rua and Cavallo were forced to delay the announcement of their program by two hours, as competing sectors of the Cabinet argued heatedly behind closed doors.

10.  Diaz-Diaz was forced to return to the streets two months after her son, Mauro, was born.