11.   NFL.com, now run by SportsLine.com, is showing some initiative with the start of the season a little more than a month away.

12.   One is Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who has shown little initiative on environmental issues during a sluggish career as a Republican senator from Colorado.

13.   One way to find out if he is capable of showing initiative on the job is for you to get a clear idea of his individual needs.

14.   Plenty of help was available in Parsons, he said, but people had to show initiative and request it.

15.   Rather, he urged local business leaders to show initiative in solving their own problems.

16.   Redbuds and a host of other blossoming trees have shown more initiative than the flowers.

17.   She admitted that, for it to have any chance to be, she will have to show more initiative on her serves.

18.   Show initiative at an early stage in a situation.

19.   Showing initiative, setting goals, and measuring performance are foreign concepts here, officials and outside consultants say.

20.   The first sign that Van Exel is growing frustrated came Saturday, when he showed little initiative against Chicago.