11.   It has been a strange week for Snyder, a week when the silence has been deafening.

12.   Judie pauses and the silence is deafening.

13.   Museum Chairman Miles Lerman urged against condemning the organization for a tormenting period of history when the silence of so many others was equally deafening.

14.   Now, the silence is deafening.

15.   On Wall Street and in corporate America, the silence has been deafening.

16.   Sources say Sprewell may be listening to his money man who thinks there is a chance for another big hit . . . The silence is deafening in Milwaukee.

17.   Sunday, however, when the mighty engines roar again at Rockingham, N.C., the silence will be deafening.

18.   The silence is almost deafening.

19.   The silence is deafening around Fenway Park.