11.   Few men last long, and even the ones who do seldom last as long as Chavez.

12.   For that reason, he warned, it would probably not last as a black area.

13.   Foreign Taiwan watchers and local opposition leaders said Lee was a KMT puppet and did not have the power base to last as president.

14.   Hideki Irabu, the Japanese import who never lasted as a starting pitcher with the Yankees, is but a painful memory to Bronx fans.

15.   How long Tower will last as a family-run business is unclear.

16.   How long this isolation can last as the regime reaches out to forge diplomatic relations is a tantalizing question.

17.   In the whole journalistic Powell-book industry, two pieces of work will last as permanent documentation.

18.   It sounds like a college bowl lineup, and is likely to last about as long.

19.   Like the car, Howard says, furniture has to last as long as possible.

20.   Many observers feel Dana Hall will not last as the starting free safety, with Merton Hanks moving back from the corner.