1.   The cock was announcing the start of a new day.

2.   A bell announces the start of Mass and a group of children from Bangladesh sing a song, accompanying themselves on a piano and some percussion instruments.

3.   But the National Institutes of Health took the data seriously enough to announce the start of a two-year study on the effects of chlorination byproducts.

4.   Creditanstalt Securities and Polish state-owned agricultural bank BGZ announced the start of a new open-ended fund in Warsaw targeting Polish and foreign shares.

5.   During their first summit Friday in Mexico, President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the start of high-level discussions on immigration issues.

6.   Gov. Christie Whitman announced the start of the program after receiving permission Wednesday from the federal government to make enrollment in HMOs mandatory.

7.   He plans to hold a news conference Sunday to announce the start of the federal inquiry.

8.   Putin declared Chechnya at peace last spring and announced the start of a troop withdrawal, but the pullback has yet to be completed.

9.   That show was postponed because the United States had just announced the start of its bombing campaign in Afghanistan.

10.   To promote the partnerships with businesses, Whitman also announced the start of a Job Link system.