11.   A. You have missed the boat, says a spokeswoman for British Information Services.

12.   After a lot of harrumphing around the board room about missing the boat, IBM committed to churning out its own desktop computer within a year.

13.   British acid-jazz guitarist Ronny Jordan tries so hard to be hip on his latest disc that he misses the boat almost entirely.

14.   But I missed the boat on signing up for caps and gowns.

15.   But much of that misses the boat.

16.   But it missed the boat on reliability.

17.   But really, they missed the boat.

18.   But the Texas governor and other avowed tax-fighters may be missing the boat with many voters.

19.   By the time the case was abandoned, the microprocessor was revolutionizing the computer industry, and IBM was missing the boat.

20.   Did Revlon miss the boat?