11.   But as their neighborhoods have become more attractive, some residents have found themselves pushed out, along with the criminals.

12.   But Hoyda said he felt the neighborhood was becoming ripe for revitalization.

13.   But the devastated neighborhoods have become a barricaded city occupied by camouflage-clad federal troops and other law-enforcement officers.

14.   But the neighborhood became depressed, and the couple grew old.

15.   But they also know their neighborhoods may well become targets for law enforcement in the domestic struggle against terrorism.

16.   But with millions of ordinary people flooding the Usenet, many neighborhoods have become electronic slums, teeming with vulgarians and fast-buck artists.

17.   Civilian neighborhoods become temporary ammunition or weapons dumps, they said, and no dissent is possible.

18.   He was there for the bad times, too, when the amusement parks closed and the neighborhood became a cliche for urban decay.

19.   His dream is that the two neighborhoods could again become one, particularly if a proposal to replace the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel goes forward.

20.   In the process, they say, lives may be saved, and neighborhoods will become better places to live.