11.   As the year ended, Trinidad was waiting for Don King, his promoter, to make him a fight.

12.   As the year ends, Kerrigan is trying to polish her scuffed image.

13.   As with individual returns, tax-cutting strategies narrow once the tax year ends.

14.   But as the dollar now strengthens, the sheltered years are ending.

15.   But Koppes is not hopeful that this year will end that way.

16.   But the year has not ended, and the end is not in sight.

17.   But the year ended tragically for him, complicating an already complex personal life.

18.   Herren knew only that he wanted the year to end as quickly as possible.

19.   Helen Morris, the banquet manager at the Doral Inn, said Jackson held church meetings at the hotel for about a year ending last fall.

20.   His racing year ended last month when he came down with an infection.