21.   If the money is approved, work would start that year and probably would take about four years.

22.   In fact, Fisher came off the bench last year behind Ron Harper and has started this year only because Harper is hurt.

23.   Investors started the year confident, for it looked as though acute electrical shortages and fossil-fuel production limitations would extend a two-year bull run.

24.   Isringhausen started the year in Class AAA, but broke his wrist punching a trash can after a bad inning.

25.   Johnson said he would go to Class AAA to start the year if the Mets requested it, because it would show they see good things in his swing.

26.   Jeff Suppan is expected to be used as a middle reliever to start the year and move into the rotation during the year.

27.   Junior center Ben Davis started the year ineligible and ended it ineligible, missing the last two games.

28.   John Smoltz started the year in Greenville on an injury-rehab assignment and wondered if his elbow would make it to Memorial Day.

29.   Moray and some other skippers say they would not have started last year, or would have quit sooner, if they had been fully briefed on storm warnings.

30.   Most of the indices that we look at will be lower than they start the year.