1.  Dennis Byrd and Al Toon, whose Jets careers each ended five years ago this weekend; Byrd because of partial paralysis, Toon because of too many concussions.

2.  Dennis is a 13-year veteran whose wife and father-in-law are also deputies with the department.

3.  Dennis recalled one dog owner whose pet suffered from "immune mediated hemolytic anemia," the red blood cell disease.

4.  Deficit hawks rejoice that Rivlin, whose expenditure-cutting swoops are the fiercest of all, is to head the OMB.

5.  Cuba-born singer Albita Rodriguez, better known as simply Albita, is a quirky contradiction whose musical star is rising fast.

6.  Cullman is president of Cullman Ventures, whose businesses include Keith Clark, a printer of commercial calendars and diaries.

7.  Deregulation has spawned a pestilence of hustlers, whose intrusiveness is ungoverned by law, or by any detectable shame.

8.  Derek Bok, who became president of Harvard in 1971, said this was inevitable for students whose high schools were anything but Andover and Exeter.

9.  Derivatives are contracts whose value derives from price changes in the underlying asset, such as interest rates or commodities.

10.  Derivatives are contracts whose value is derived from the value of underlying assets like stocks, currencies or commodities.