1.   Dating agencies try to match people with similar personalities and common interests.

2.   Some disreputable agencies try to charge just for putting your name on their lists although this is illegal.

3.   The agency tries to forge effective partnerships with communities and private businesses.

4.   The temp agency was trying to place me with a law firm.

5.   An official said Tuesday that the agency was not trying to block the Lilly-PCS deal.

6.   And police agencies are trying to teach motorists how to react and protect themselves if they are pulled over.

7.   And Sunday, The New York Post reported that the same caseworker, whom the agency tried unsuccessfully to dismiss last year, had been assigned to both cases.

8.   And when agencies have tried to uproot workers, to graft them to other jobs in other states, the experiments have failed.

9.   Aylward said the agency always had tried to reward its workers.

10.   At the same time, the agency is trying to sell itself to skilled college graduates when espionage is more about technology than ever before.