1.   As the temperatures fall, council workers are preparing for another winter gritting the roads.

2.   American Red Cross workers prepared to open shelters.

3.   Another plant also is idled because workers are preparing for the next model year.

4.   As in much of the city, improvement was in the air as workers prepared foundations for a pair of new homes.

5.   But in the afternoon, the entire avenue was closed again as workers prepared to insert wooden planks to shore up the damaged wall.

6.   Cleanup workers are preparing to apply a new type of foam that kills anthrax spores and bacteria to contaminated mailrooms on Capitol Hill, officials said Thursday.

7.   Emergency workers were preparing the gym at Webbers Falls High School, less than a mile from the bridge, for use as a morgue, witnesses said.

8.   For example, United Parcel Service has legions of part-timers who sort packages during the wee hours while Holiday Inn workers prepare fruit cups for breakfast meetings.

9.   For weeks, Indian workers preparing for the tests usually laid cables and dug holes when the site was not being observed, the officials said.

10.   Hotel workers prepared first-floor rooms for flooding and secured the rest of the facility for high winds.