1.   From the American perspective, Giraud had the twin advantages of outranking de Gaulle and of being totally uninterested in politics.

2.   Born in New Jersey and raised in England and Spain, Kemiji approaches winemaking with a mix of European and American perspectives.

3.   A couple of benchmarks help put this associationist impulse in American historical perspective.

4.   But they share some American perspectives, particularly placing importance on having fun.

5.   Even more significant from an American perspective is that after taking the European tour, some of these ideas are finally getting a hearing in their birthplace.

6.   From an American perspective, more bloodshed can only make it harder to keep Arab and other Muslim countries on board in the war against terrorism.

7.   From an American perspective, the wrong incident in Northern Ireland last week got all the attention.

8.   From the American perspective, any moments of real concern had passed by the turn of the millennium at Greenwich Mean Time, midnight in London.

9.   Half a century later, this historic first smoking ban at a public place seems enlightened, at least from an American perspective.

10.   That it was sullied by an American perspective.