1.   The administration is considering tax relief to help shore up the US airline industry.

2.   Also, the SuperSonics are interested in Olden Polynice and Billy Owens to help shore up their front line.

3.   And when, soon after, the Pentagon took its Web site off the air to shore up security, it feared being cracked, not hacked.

4.   Bill Clinton tried to forge a Palestinian-Israeli agreement and shore up the peace process in Northern Ireland.

5.   Blair was also a leader in helping Bush shore up European support for the war in Afghanistan.

6.   A U.S. government employment report that showed slow job growth in November helped shore up U.S. securities and firm Brazilian share prices, trader said.

7.   Again, it was Bobby, the family promise keeper, who helped shore up the marriage.

8.   City officials believe safer streets will lure business back and shore up residential property values, thereby restoring a tax base that has dramatically eroded in recent years.

9.   Clinton goes to Missouri to sway congressional fence-sitters and shore up allies such as Majority Leader Richard Gephardt.

10.   Cost-cutting measures, however, have helped shore up some profit.