11.   As soon as I returned home after my floss burn diagnosis, I called my friend Gail.

12.   Boulden and Trout called friends working for larger Wyoming newspapers, urging them to cover the story.

13.   A couple of months ago, he called a friend in Berkeley from a pay phone in Albuquerque, using his calling card.

14.   A Marine called my friend, serving as the embassy duty officer that weekend.

15.   According to Nagle, Diaz called a friend on Cape Cod from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and asked if his victim had died.

16.   After calling my friend Karrie in San Francisco, I was more worried.

17.   After the first woman returned to her room on campus, she called her friend and discovered she had not returned home yet.

18.   After he was beaten, Vargas said, he called his friends simply to retrieve him and not to exact revenge, as some have suggested.

19.   After several long phone consultancies, my wife had me call a friend who knows computers for some personal consultancy.

20.   Aides to Bradley said he would spend Wednesday at his home in Montclair, N.J., resting and calling friends to talk about his future.