1.   Being ahead in a single snapshot moment is, of course, a fleeting thing in the exploding, evanescent world of computer-based communications.

2.   But he vows that his drive will be no fleeting thing and will be aimed not at earlier patronage hirings but at corrupt, undisciplined and lazy officers.

3.   But in the auto world, like many other highly competitive industries, exclusivity can be a fleeting thing.

4.   Most will discover that popularity is a fleeting thing.

5.   One season and five games later, all three are finding out what a fleeting thing NFL success is.

6.   Political insight, when it strikes at all in Massachusetts, tends to be a fleeting thing.

7.   Still, as his own examples show, fame is a fleeting thing.

8.   Still, Smith knows, confidence is a fleeting thing on this march to Seattle and the Final Four.

9.   That fame is a fleeting thing was driven home emphatically to Jeremy Mayfield as he sped into the first turn last month at New Hampshire Speedway.

10.   Millwood, for one, knows momentum is a fleeting thing in baseball.