1.   Better to take a chance on reserve second baseman Andy Fox, who was on deck.

2.   Better to take them to your room with you.

3.   Better to take a back seat for a while.

4.   Better to take a chance on trampling the rights of the innocent.

5.   Better to take your chances with a creaky Boggs than with Williams.

6.   Better to take in Universal Studios, a freeway and a hill beyond Hollywood Boulevard.

7.   Washington would do better to take it and, with a little patience and hopefully more skill, seek to topple him than to flaunt its firepower.

8.   Who better to take them on than a glib Beltway thinker like Choate?

9.   Who better to take a former finals team and start over?