11.  Delaware, Ohio's Mike Coughlin set low e.t. and top mile-per-hour track records in the Pro Stock Truck category.

12.  Describing top Japanese officials as in a state of denial over their country's financial difficulties, Wood delves into the unique structural problems lying just below the surface.

13.  Denver's top radio station couldn't let the slur pass.

14.  DeParle records Murray's "manly groan" as a woman in a tube top passes him on a plane.

15.  Department records show they held only 6 percent of the top foreign service jobs in 1989 but increased their share steadily to 17 percent last year.

16.  Departures such as Biondi's are common among underperforming studios, but Seagram's purge of top executives has been especially bloody.

17.  Depending on the filling, the leftover dough may be used for stripping for the top, as with a cobbler, or as dumplings for the interior.

18.  Depfa has been given the top rating from Standard & Poor Corp. and Moody's Investors Service Inc.

19.  Desmarest, 53, of Total Fina, is also a product of top French schools, and has spent most of his career in the oil industry.

20.  Desperate to raise money, Henry built a 26-horsepower horseless carriage with an amazing top speed of 72 mph.