1.   A REAL ale pub has won a unique award from a hardy band of travelling Plymouth Argyle supporters.

2.   And that would dismay a hardy band of Mini devotees, says Carl Zack, a Mini enthusiast from Brookline, Mass.

3.   Fighting long odds, a hardy band of Democrats and public interest groups says it could undermine basic national protections.

4.   In one episode, a hardy band of landscapers and a droll narrator help a woman create a surprise for her husband, who is away on a trip.

5.   The Russian Far East is slowly drawing a hardy band of business and adventure travelers.

6.   There is something peculiarly New England, however, about Jeffords and the hardy band of independent thinkers who buck the party orthodoxy.