11.   But sleeping aboard often has allowed them to be first to the fishing holes.

12.   Companies with excess supplies of industrial commodities, or firms in desperate need of a few thousand extra computers, are turning first to the Internet auctioneers.

13.   For Manar, whose head is scarved in Muslim piety, life should go first to the mother.

14.   Habash took refuge in Syria and Hawatmeh went first to Algeria, where he stayed for nine years.

15.   He said they will look first to feeder cities -- places where hotel guess come from -- such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

16.   He scored two runs, walked twice, singled and, in the fifth inning, scooted from first to third on one wild pitch.

17.   He wanted to go first to the Jenin refugee camp, the site of fierce Palestinian resistance and Israeli military attacks, to aid wounded civilians.

18.   He went first to Costa Rica, where he spent two months before moving on to America on a Yankee-obtained visa.

19.   He went first to the investment banking firm of James D. Wolfensohn, who is now president of the World Bank.

20.   He worked as an administrative assistant first to U.S.Sen.