11.   Court this morning and the ruling will be either a death blow to Gore or spark a mad rush to recount the ballots.

12.   Even before the mad rush to the finish, the lawmakers had set down landmarks.

13.   Finer points of taste and erudition are lost in the mad rush to head out the door and subtlety is nowhere to be seen.

14.   Four times a day she had made a mad rush to the bathroom for a cold shower.

15.   In a mad rush to get onto the information superhighway, scores of companies are jumping into the murky realm of cyberspace, posting commercial messages with abandon.

16.   Instead of his usual mad rush into attack mode, Tyson came out with a tactical style, boxing rather than bulling, bobbing rather than bullying.

17.   It also has much to do with the refusal of anyone to try to improve these relationships to head off this mad rush for the exit.

18.   Many of the buildings were erected in a mad rush over the past few months.

19.   Most towns lack docks, so passengers have to be carried or rowed ashore, triggering mad rushes to disembark.

20.   Normally when Christmas approaches, a mad rush begins in Congress to tie up loose ends and go home.