1.   Document destruction is not a crime unless those engaged in the shredding were acting to keep records out of the hands of government investigators or civil plaintiffs.

2.   He said Japanese officials would monitor currency markets carefully, suggesting they may act to keep it from rising too swiftly.

3.   That concern was offset by expectations the Japanese Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan will act to keep the U.S. currency from falling, traders said.

4.   The balancing mechanism mimics the human nervous system and muscles, which act to keep the body upright, he said.

5.   The computer industry may need to act to keep annoyance from becoming nightmare.

6.   What acted to keep Earth warm before the emergence of life is a bit of a mystery.

7.   Hasan Sazili, deputy chairman of a parliament commission, said the military should act to keep the standoff from dragging out.

8.   On Wall Street overnight, U.S. stocks rallied as investors saw the intervention as a hopeful sign that authorities were acting to keep the Asian financial crisis from worsening.

9.   The international community must act to keep thousands of starving children from death in sanctions-crippled Iraq, a relief agency officer said Monday.

10.   The Nandankanan zoo had conducted autopsies and cremated the tigers before federal investigators arrived, saying it acted to keep the skins from reaching the black market.