1.  Any phone company that puts loyalty above flexibility is destined for the morgue.

2.  Any politician who can't knock that one out of the park should be put on the disk-cabled list (to be kept off C-SPAN).

3.  Defensively with their secondary and their linebackers, they'll certainly put us to the test.

4.  Defensively, the Sonics slowed the Nuggets' transition game long enough for Payton to eventually put the Sonics ahead 96-89 with a short running jumper.

5.  Deputy District Attorney David P. Conn said they prevented the defense from putting the parents on trial and left the brothers without much of a case.

6.  Dennis Diamond, who put the project together with Murray Louis, was also represented by a vivid three-monitor video exploration of a duet by David Grenke.

7.  Dennis Scott was talking about getting ahead, 2-0, and putting the Bulls in a position where they would have to win four of five games.

8.  Denny McLain was professionally wrong for putting a home-run pitch on a platter to Mickey Mantle.

9.  Denny Pearce, the Houston businessman who helps put on the breakfast, says it's an all-inclusive event for everybody of every faith.

10.  Denominated in dollars, it was the first such parcel ever put up by the post-communist Kremlin and the largest East European bond issue ever placed.