11.   They decided as a bloc not to patronize the Kennedy School.

12.   When he decided as a teen-ager to become a novelist, he concluded that he would write about the Alamo.

13.   Yet fascinated by his doctors, perhaps feeling indebted to them, he decided as a teenager to study medicine.

14.   A man who decided as a joke to mail letters containing flour at the height of the anthrax scares last year was convicted Tuesday of being a public nuisance.

15.   Both Israel and the Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital and the fate of the city is to be decided as part of a final peace settlement.

16.   By early Friday the winners in all but two seats had been decided as vote counting wound down in a general election to return the country to democracy.

17.   For the third year running the European Union decided as a bloc not to censure China.

18.   Manager Bob Boone then substituted for shortstop Barry Larkin, who had singled and doubled but often leaves when a game is decided as a precaution against injury.

19.   She says the students decided as a group to use the stolen test and that Plecki did not push them into any decision.

20.   Teri Thornton is one of those dreamers, has been since she decided as a little girl in Detroit that jazz would be the soundtrack of her life.