11.   But hope is a high-risk business strategy, so Rose is turning more of his attention to backup plans.

12.   But in baseball, people do go down and you need backup plans....

13.   But Oates is also formulating a backup plan that calls for Patterson, right-hander Tim Crabtree and left-hander Eric Gunderson to share duties.

14.   But Riley could have a nice backup plan.

15.   But late in the morning his backup plans began to unravel.

16.   But occasionally a backup plan can fall through, and she must pay for overnight care.

17.   But records show he had a backup plan.

18.   Critical questions remain, among them whether the Bush administration has a backup plan if Arafat does not meet the conditions for conferring with Cheney.

19.   Evans would like to have a closer in place by mid January, sources said, but he does have backup plans.

20.   Even if the earplugs fail, the Trojans have a backup plan.