11.   IN THE current economic climate, the definition of an optimistic businessman has been one who irons five shirts on a Sunday evening.

12.   And when it comes to ironing a shirt, I may take certain liberties that Stewart would frown on, like not always ironing the inside of cuffs.

13.   His mother, Maria, was ironing a shirt a few feet away.

14.   John Smoltz burned himself ironing a shirt while he was wearing it.

15.   Teammate Robert Person was ironing a shirt in his Atlanta hotel room on Wednesday morning.

16.   The parolee protested that he had only been ironing shirts to take to his residential drug treatment program the next day, which Burke had arranged for him.

17.   They could iron a shirt as well as rebound a basketball or kick a soccer goal.

18.   Zambre even offers his recruits cultural survival tips, such advice to avoid ironing shirts in the kitchen while they are cooking curry.