1.   New methods must be carefully evaluated according to the criteria of cost and ease of application.

2.   Author Thomas Whitmore, a Lexington resident, also provides a do-it-yourself rating system for readers to evaluate destinations according to your own personal preferences.

3.   Schmidt said charities must be evaluated differently according to their age, size and mission.

4.   Until the court of appeals decision, cases by public employees suing their supervisors were evaluated according to whether the supervisors acted in good faith.

5.   Vintage toys are evaluated according to rarity and condition.

6.   The offers are evaluated according to the cost and environmental benefits of not farming the land.

7.   Bonds are evaluated according to their difference in yield to comparable US Treasury issues.

8.   But on Chinese admission to the WTO, the United States is insisting that Beijing be evaluated according to commercial -- rather than political -- criteria.