11.   It has spent heavily and pledged lavishly to give poor families the tools they need, from baby sitters and bus passes to case managers and community service jobs.

12.   On my third full day, somewhere near Ossining, a local bus passed me heading south.

13.   Q. My father told me to hold my breath when a bus passes.

14.   Several cars waiting for the bus to pass narrowly escaped the collapse.

15.   Schoolchildren were robbed so often that fathers gave their children broken watches and expired bus passes to give the muggers.

16.   That scaffolding was intended to create a minitunnel through which cars and buses could eventually pass.

17.   The bus passes blighted streets dotted with abandoned homes, littered streets and vagrants gulping alcohol from bottles.

18.   The buses would pass a strip mall containing a furniture liquidator, pawn shop and beeper store, past a vendor with vanity car tags flapping in the breeze.

19.   The children crane their necks as the bus passes the Round Rock Express baseball diamond.

20.   The hardest thing was watching the bus pass the signs to Dayton on its way to Cincinnati.