1.   And he has brought a dash of speed and savvy to a team long known for being plodding and unimaginative.

2.   On a red-letter day for retailers, Kmart, long known for its blue-light sales, did a brisk business at its new stores in Manhattan.

3.   The company long known for its premium beef, from gourmet burgers and top sirloin to filet mignon and chateaubriand, has it all on the web.

4.   The fact long known and frequently forgotten is that pro sports in North America have become the secular, cultural religion.

5.   They have become the attractive and highly visible new faces of a company long known for its secretiveness and suspicion of the outside world.

6.   This drive created a wide sense of alienation in a society long known for its cohesiveness.

7.   McMillen had been staying in a villa owned by her family on Tortola and had long known Spicer, who had a house nearby.

8.   The artist had been staying in a villa owned by her family on Tortola and had long known Spicer, who had a house nearby.

9.   The most powerful rival the class of machines long known as supercomputers but cost millions of dollars less.