11.   A year of time has no content, no meaning, no memory.

12.   But asking has not been enough, nor has a year of high-level negotiations or pleas to the spirit of a century of Filipino-American friendship.

13.   But how many years have we played the Dodgers?

14.   But putting a city that may soon be bigger than Detroit in an area that receives only four inches of rain a year has forced a reckoning.

15.   But recent years have had their guilty parties as well.

16.   But the worm breeds more successfully in dry years, and a drought this year has led to a larger second wave.

17.   Daewoo, while not exactly a household word around here, has been making cars for enough years to have a track record.

18.   Each year has a different theme.

19.   Every unhappy family has its eager narrator, and every year has its contributions to the form.

20.   How these three deal with their problems this year could have a huge impact on all U.S. consumers.