11.   Arena is a prickly sort, often as pleasant as an ingrown toenail, but he deserves praise for his tactical decisions in this World Cup.

12.   Beane deserves the praise for turning the Athletics around, but the players deserve some credit.

13.   Beyond the Web site crashes, analysts Burnham and Chung said the brokerage companies deserve praise.

14.   Bolcom set words felicitously, but this cast deserves much praise for making them clear.

15.   A spokesman for Gejdenson, Robert Baskin, agreed that the Republicans deserved praise.

16.   All three of these disks deserve praise for their first-rate sound.

17.   But Clinton said the CIA deserves praise for the job it has done over the years and for solving internal security problems, such as the Ames case.

18.   But supporting players Wendy Malick, David Spade and Enrico Colantoni deserve high praise, too.

19.   But the Boulder authorities deserve praise, not criticism, for declining to stage a murder trial simply to quell the impatience of the media and the public.

20.   But the deal deserves praise.