1.   By supporting the measure, they opted to put more emphasis on drug treatment and prevention and less on incarceration, Cohen said.

2.   Compaq has opted to put these goodies in its low- to midlevel systems.

3.   If county prosecutors ultimately opt to put Hewitt on trial, their own rationale could come back to haunt them.

4.   Many will opt to put their crops under government loan programs, predicted Kansas farmer Ray Crumbaker, who is president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers.

5.   The city opted to put the racing on one of its public-service channels after negotiations with the private cable companies fell through, he said.

6.   The Yankees could have pursued Henderson, a free agent, to play left field but opted to put Raines there.

7.   They contend it is developers, not the city, who are opting to put in fewer homes on stretches of high-priced desert.

8.   Tournament officials will decide the fate of the greens, depending upon how much water they opt to put on them overnight.

9.   With the U.S. stock market going gangbusters, investors are still opting to put at least some cash in low-risk money funds.

10.   Fears are simmering that savers may flee the smaller regional institutions and opt to put their money in megabanks.