11.   The prospect of entire slates of lively, colorful candidates with lurid nicknames should keep us up at night.

12.   Thus, local politics provide a glimpse of potentially seismic shifts in Japanese life as the electorate increasingly can cast votes for candidates instead of entire party slates.

13.   First an unprecedented players strike wiped out the entire slate of first-division games.

14.   First an unprecedented players strike wiped out the entire slate of first division games.