1.   Berg, after all, will bear almost as distant a relation to the next century as Schubert has held for ours.

2.   He said his primary focus as chief executive would be turning the company around and using his name to create opportunities, rather than bearing it as a burden.

3.   Most bear as a common theme a frightening early-childhood circus or carnival experience involving a you-know-what.

4.   You know, it is true that this idea was consciously borne as a non-bureaucratic, grass-roots, community-based, totally nonpartisan idea.

5.   Sometimes the destruction of material things was almost as hard to bear as death.