11.   Back up his cocky attitude by focusing on playing the game right and playing it well.

12.   Advocates for prisoners said the increased detention reflected a change in attitude by both judges and prosecutors, who are taking a harder line with accused teen-agers.

13.   Carter said he senses a change in attitude by the NFL toward insisting that local taxpayers be asked to help in building or reconstructing a stadium.

14.   Doctors should help their patients develop positive attitudes by finding hobbies or exercising to take their minds off problems, mind-body experts say.

15.   Hoffman says the battle all comes down to money and a callous attitude by local officials.

16.   If your audience has a positive or neutral bias, reinforce the existing attitude by stating the benefits that will accrue from your message.

17.   Klein brought to underwear a gloriously flamboyant new life and changed attitudes by doing so.

18.   Langdon said that in the last decade he had seen a disturbing shift in attitudes by corporate executives as to how aggressive to be in avoiding taxes.

19.   Massachusetts students got twice as many yearlong suspensions last year as they did the previous year, according to statewide figures that signal an increasingly get-tough attitude by principals.

20.   Smith said his company is following in step in the anti-mail attitude by not sending holiday cards to its clients this year.