11.   Dinitz said that the XFL had taken a crack at it and was in trouble.

12.   Everyone took a crack at explaining why Wednesday night, but no one seemed to come up with much of an answer.

13.   Every A-list director, from Francis Ford Coppola to Martin Scorsese, seems compelled to take his crack.

14.   Florence Stone, a writer, editor and manager with the American Management Association, takes a crack at creating a management program that is realistic and progressive.

15.   For all the reputation he enjoys in government and legal circles, Barnes is a little like a famed Broadway actor taking a crack at an action movie.

16.   He admitted to taking crack from an apartment in October and selling it.

17.   He may even take another crack at unseating his rival, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

18.   He had written the music and had a few ideas for lyrics, and lead singer Robin Wilson intended to take a crack at writing the lyrics.

19.   HIGH-SPEED YOGHURT AT WORK If you want to keep ageing bombs safe or take a crack at fusion, then you had better head for the supermarket first.

20.   I felt so good that I took another crack at identifying the little brown-gray bird with the yellow rump.