11.   By law, Hill staffers get two months of severance pay, and if they have three years of service, they get first crack at Civil Service jobs.

12.   Chris Dalman should get a crack as a starting guard.

13.   Davis represented a future in which everyone got a crack at the clock.

14.   Even when he became an instant star in baseball as a pitcher and shortstop, his appeals to get a crack at the rink continued.

15.   Forbes Tuttle with IPO Value Monitor in New York said institutional investors like mutual and pension fund buyers would get first crack at the Netscape offering.

16.   He gets another crack at Collins and the Giants on Sunday here at Veterans Stadium.

17.   His clients will get first crack at projects, but there will be work for the rest of Hollywood, too, Ovitz said.

18.   His first order of business is to stabilize the situation and figure out who gets first crack at reorganizing the medical care delivery system in Massachusetts.

19.   If the professional team in, say, Tampa invested enough in players and management, it would probably get a crack at joining the big leagues.

20.   If Sarbanes decided to keep the top spot at Banking instead, Dodd would get a crack at that gavel.