11.   He said the proposal mirrors successful efforts in Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta where new retail development serves as an anchor for existing commercial strips.

12.   He was standing on the busy commercial strip of Seventh Avenue, at Carroll Street, said Sgt. James Dodd, one of the officers.

13.   In Borough Park, the commercial strip bustled with activity this week as shoppers picked up special foods.

14.   In an office-supply store on the main commercial strip, Hasidic and black patrons milled politely.

15.   Indeed, a former Kelly aide says Clinton virtually ignored Washington and Mrs. Kelly after making one well-publicized walk along a black commercial strip shortly after his election.

16.   Interviews this week on the Seventh Avenue commercial strip in the heart of Park Slope suggest that Ms. Messinger is likely to do well there.

17.   It is a vital neighborhood, with hundreds of charming old town houses and a hip commercial strip on nearby Smith Street.

18.   It was discretely tucked above a toy store and furniture gallery on a gaudy commercial strip in the industrial zone of the city.

19.   Natural desert vistas in the East Valley have been replaced by commercial strip development and housing subdivisions.

20.   Morton, noting that the commercial strip usually provided a safe spot where the youths often gathered and socialized, remarked at the randomness of the crime.