1.   Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization.

2.   In brief, it was a fertile testing ground for those wishing to demonstrate prowess in their mastery of econometric technique.

3.   The transfer of the Kit to Novaya Zemlya, a major nuclear testing ground, was carried out in secret.

4.   Roche was beaten a length on Desert Team, who had set sail for home through the testing ground but was collared by the John Oxxtrained Sinissipi.

5.   Although Italy is admittedly a special case, a number of European political figures and analysts fear it could turn out to be a testing ground for change.

6.   And now there is concern that civilians are also at risk because they may have breathed uranium-tinged dust near European military testing grounds.

7.   And the testing ground has always been the Sunday dinner table in Roswell, Ga., where he would pitch idea after idea to his family.

8.   Another major issue has been the preservation of species, with Yellowstone the testing ground.

9.   Apple may be trying to do some unique things with the Web, and EarthLink may be a good testing ground for that.

10.   As he grew up in a subdivision of tidy ranch houses with postage-stamp lawns in the Westbury Park subdivision in Woodbridge, athletics was always a central testing ground.