11.   Giants coaches, players and fans have seen promising signs to that effect for the past month.

12.   He was able to smile and open his eyes on command for a doctor, a promising sign, his father said.

13.   His addition, melded with the improved health of Olajuwon and Barkley and promising signs from other newcomers, makes the Rockets clear contenders again.

14.   Illya Kuryaki is a promising sign that rock en espanol plans to respect no boundaries.

15.   In a laboratory, technicians were able to introduce contaminants into the hydraulic fluid to make an identical unit jam, a promising sign.

16.   In another promising sign for the bond initiative, New Yorkers surveyed expressed deep concern about the state of the environment.

17.   In another promising sign for PBS, Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, has indicated that the digital conversion deadlines may be unreasonable.

18.   Indeed, there were promising signs Tuesday night that the two parties were trying to repair the rhetorical damage done during the day.

19.   In what might be a promising sign, there were moments when he looked like the Canidate who was so explosive through the second half of last season.

20.   Israel took a milder view, saying the evacuation was a promising sign and meant that the two sides might soon be able to end the siege peacefully.