1.  Any self-respecting American baseball player would have stood with hands on hips and admired his handiwork after a few of those forehand winners.

2.  Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says the word "democracy has come to stand for a bit of an oversimplification."

3.  Denise Jones, a 35-year-old mother of two, was standing on the sidewalk when the car hit her.

4.  Dennis Cook, who stands out there looking like an arthritic old man, was a revelation in winning Game 1 with two shutout innings.

5.  Denver owns a plus 10 advantage in turnovers and the Jets stand at a plus 6.

6.  Defiant House Republicans, pledging they would stand their ground, refused Wednesday to reopen closed federal offices as their Senate colleagues had urged.

7.  "Definitely that was my bridge to standing on my own and not having to continually depend on the system," she said.

8.  Derek Harper passed to Ewing, who was standing near the foul line.

9.  Deriding Buchanan's economic nationalism, DeLay said the GOP stands for free trade and open markets.

10.  Derivatives had allowed them high yields but also meant that they stood to lose far more than their principal.