1.   Mickey Mouse remains a perennial favorite.

2.   Teddy bears are a perennial favorite with children.

3.   Amazingly, the problem outranked, if only slightly, such perennial political favorites as health care, crime and taxes.

4.   And Mattel is taking its perennial favorite, Barbie, into the computer age with a new line of CD-ROM games for girls.

5.   And the explanation of tiramisu will demystify this perennial favorite.

6.   And the drive-in remains a perennial favorite among young singles, for many of the same reasons their parents and grandparents enjoyed it so much.

7.   And, yes, some of the folks in the background, out on the street, opt for that perennial apocalyptic favorite, looting and pillaging.

8.   Best-selling authors and television journalists are perennial favorites, and retired general Colin Powell, as well as former presidents and their wives, are in constant demand.

9.   Brazil is like the Montreal Canadiens, the perennial sentimental favorite.

10.   A perennial favorite was a physicist who calls himself Megavolt.