1.   Antimissile officials have defended their approach as sound, saying initial tests are simple only because they need to walk before they run.

2.   ABC officials defended their approach, primarily in the opening tease, noting a mania nationwide over the Bronx team.

3.   Agency officials defended that approach by saying working cooperatively with companies allows problems to be fixed faster.

4.   Bush defended his approach in an interview with several Latin American reporters at the White House on Tuesday.

5.   But federal officials defended the approach, saying the arrests were based on intensive surveillance that included wiretaps and videotapes in some cases.

6.   City fire officials defended their approach, saying they had rejected several proposals after deeming them either too dangerous or possibly ineffective.

7.   Clinton defended his approach to rights in China and elsewhere.

8.   Consider the scenario in which Parker was assigned to defend the approaches to a base.

9.   Defending his approach toward Moscow, Christopher insists that the practice of managing problems is paying dividends.

10.   Dole is a compromiser by trade, a legislative conciliator, and he defended that approach in accepting his nomination.