1.   And the president benefits, he says, from the negative perceptions Americans have of Lewinsky and independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr.

2.   Blowouts by Tennessee and Ohio State would further tarnish a conference that can ill afford any more negative perceptions.

3.   ----- Some say that political activism could change the negative public perception of hackers, who are commonly seen as social misfits.

4.   But Chandler also thinks that he, like others, has had his development hurt by negative perceptions, impatient coaches and general managers.

5.   But congressional Republicans, sensing a negative public perception of the agency, are pressing the plan on a number of fronts.

6.   But absent inspiring architecture that people will see quickly, negative perceptions about cities may harden.

7.   But he and others added that a prolonged Senate trial could merely reinforce increasingly negative perceptions of the GOP among independent voters and Democrats.

8.   But Dick Bennett, a Manchester-based pollster, said that Forbes must overcome negative perception among voters here that he is trying to buy the election.

9.   But many also held negative perceptions of the military, including that soldiers cannot date, have no free time and spend most of their time in the mud.

10.   But when you put the disease together with being gay, it fueled a negative perception in the black community.