1.   ELECTION fever is gripping Hummersknott School, Darlington, where six candidates are campaigning for votes from their playground peers.

2.   Banking is one area where mergers and acquisitions fever might once again grip investors, as it did late last year.

3.   Baseball fever is gripping the nation as all of the pennant chases heat up.

4.   But back when election fever gripped the White House, the less noble reality was that Sheila Heslin was powerless to stop a campaign that was out of control.

5.   But surely Martinez has spent enough time in Boston to know how baseball fever can grip the Hub.

6.   But World Series fever is apparently gripping the country.

7.   Daisy-Head fever was gripping the nation.

8.   Deal-making fever gripped Silicon Valley, tossing investment banks a steady supply of merger advisory assignments with their multimillion dollar fees.

9.   For today, Neely is back in the fold and Red Sox pennant fever grips the Hub.

10.   Hockey fever grips Atlanta.