11.   At least now, Babcock is not playing spin doctor.

12.   At their best they are more protective than a bodyguard, more trustworthy than a spin doctor and less demanding than a wife.

13.   Before his Friday speech, Gingrich called in some Reagan spin doctors to make his radical and inhumane anti-federalism sound less scary.

14.   A Celtic win will set off spin doctors and headline writers.

15.   A favorite charge is that the Labor government pays too much attention to news management and spin doctors.

16.   A spin doctor might have put on a grin and ignored the fact that his quarterback barely came out of the win alive.

17.   After the debate, each candidate also became his own spin doctor.

18.   Afterward, the spin doctors were in full force in both locker rooms.

19.   Both Manager Joe Torre and the pitching coach, Mel Stottlemyre, continued expressing their supreme confidence in Gooden, perhaps playing spin doctors along the way.

20.   But Ganske, a surgeon, was more doctor than spin doctor on Capitol Hill last week.