1.  As a fast-growing area with low unemployment, Western Washington showed a fairly upbeat mood, at least compared to national polls.

2.  Defensively, the Pats played fairly well in the first three games.

3.  Dennis Heaney, incoming CPA president and executive publisher of the Los Angeles Archdiocese newspaper, The Tidings, seems fairly typical for a Catholic lay journalist.

4.  Cultivated blueberries are usually fairly large; wild ones, as well as huckleberries, are smaller and more intensely flavored.

5.  Despite all these threats, he said, the building remains "fairly stable" for now.

6.  Despite fairly strong consumer demand and tame inflation in the United States, analysts are concerned that Asia's woes will crimp earnings, especially for large multinational companies.

7.  Curtis Pride hit a grounder to Joey Cora's left, a fairly tough chance, but a play Cora has made.

8.  Cus used to say that when you get to a certain level, the talents are fairly comparable.

9.  Desk work is a fairly recent occurrence in the course of human evolution.

10.  Despite a fairly stoic existence on the court _ and a reticent relationship with the media _ Campbell on occasion comes up with some pretty witty lines.