11.   -- State regulators have become more aggressive about cracking down on wayward firms for deceptive marketing.

12.   A couple of years ago, as Wal-Mart and Kmart got more aggressive about toys, its sales per square foot slipped.

13.   Absent the Soviet factor in its economy, Cuba has become much more aggressive about restoring Old Havana, primarily to protect its growing dependence on the tourism sector.

14.   Both have also been aggressive about deploying new services to customers relatively quickly.

15.   Bush has been far more aggressive about it, which Edward G. Rendell, the general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said was entirely acceptable.

16.   Bush has been more aggressive about blocking airline strikes than any president since Lyndon B. Johnson.

17.   Bristol-Myers is particularly aggressive about going to court here and abroad, mostly to defend patents that restrict cheap generic drugs from overtaking big sellers.

18.   But he said technology companies have a good bit of leeway to interpret generally accepted accounting principles, and are often aggressive about using it.

19.   But Kahan said Lychner was not always so aggressive about crime.

20.   But she was especially aggressive about obtaining critical and popular recognition of his sculpture.