21.   Everyone has known since late May that the Yankees will easily win the American League East.

22.   Former Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada, whom he has known well since the Reagan era, asked him, too.

23.   --Friends who have known one another since childhood and whose parents are also friends of the family.

24.   Having known since February he would start opening day, Wade Miller dismisses any talk of nerves.

25.   He became the center of a large circle of friends, some of whom had known him since childhood in South River, N.J.

26.   Harrison said public panel members had known since last year that Rocketdyne would be on the distribution list and permitted to add its input to the final report.

27.   He got his job through a friend he had known since kindergarten in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, where Safi still lived with his family.

28.   He said Duquette, who has known him since their days together in Montreal, has stayed away.

29.   He married a woman, Alicia, he had known since grade school.

30.   His top aide at the Republican campaign committee, Maria Cino, has known him since high school.