1.   And in North Carolina, lawmakers are calling for a moratorium on soft-drink contracts that pay schools to pepper their halls with soda machines.

2.   And never, ever pass a soda machine or a pay telephone without checking to see if any change has been left behind.

3.   Electronic ballasts in overhead lighting and compressors in soda machines also cause unexpected loads.

4.   He scoots his chair closer to hers and holds her hand on the way to the soda machine.

5.   He is also the man they call for a broken lock, a cracked window, a persnickety soda machine or an overflowing toilet.

6.   I started answering phones on the metro desk just out of college, and I know all the back stairwells and less-trafficked soda machines.

7.   If you want to eat in, the choices are a candy bar machine in the lobby and a soda machine on the second floor.

8.   In between races, the drivers take time to grab a drink from the soda machine or talk about the last race.

9.   In other states, legislators question whether schools have disregarded state guidelines simply by allowing soda machines on campus.

10.   In the near future, a soda machine may call a pager to alert a distributor that it is about to sell out of a certain soft drink.