11.   As one of the most advanced markets for mobile devices, Japan tends to be a lucrative testing ground for telecommunications companies.

12.   At the Totsk military testing grounds, the Soviet army tethered goats, rabbits and horses in concentric rings around Ground Zero.

13.   Atlanta-based Cox Communications is making Southern California its national testing ground for offering new toys to TV viewers.

14.   Before Florida was even a state, it had been the testing ground for hundreds of years of international land fraud and investment fantasies.

15.   Bosnia is also an indirect testing ground for the financial cost of NATO expansion.

16.   But it is also acting as a testing ground for new strategies to get out the vote.

17.   But testing ground beef for salmonella added to the cost of the meat served at school lunches and industry officials opposed it.

18.   Charlie Evans, a political consultant to the opponents of the Utah initiative, said he believes that the three states are a testing ground for the financiers.

19.   Conversation then becomes a testing ground for these words.

20.   Designers often use resort collections as a testing ground for ideas.