1.   Deutsch is by far the largest independent agency acquired by Interpublic in a skein dating back almost a decade.

2.   SEVEN STRAIGHT Dating back to last season, USC has won seven consecutive games.

3.   Sorenstam has now posted six consecutive rounds of par or better in the Open dating back to last year.

4.   Subsequent evidence seems to implicate the five men in a sophisticated spy operation, code-named the Wasp Network, dating back almost a decade.

5.   The teenager was barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, which included nine CPS reports dating back a decade.

6.   Bureaucratic laws and minor traffic offenses are bypassed with a gift or the equivalent of a few dollars, a habit dating back centuries in the region.

7.   In a tradition dating back a century, wild ponies annually swim the channel between Assateague and Chincoteague islands off the Maryland-Virginia coast.