1.   Keane is considered to be second in party power, but it is a distant second.

2.   At the party convention he came in a distant second, but in the primary he narrowly defeated the candidate backed by the party leaders.

3.   Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra was a distant second.

4.   A decade of independence has made them Latvians first and ethnic Latvians a distant second.

5.   A distant second is a piece-rate program, when employees are paid more for increasing rates of performance.

6.   A distant second.

7.   A distant second on the blame list was drug abuse.

8.   A distant second was Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, the leftist Mexico City mayor.

9.   After putting considerable effort into a November straw poll in Maine and predicting victory, he placed a distant second to Texas Sen. Phil Gramm.

10.   Against that kind of competition, the likes of Al Gore, George W. Bush and Ralph Nader are doomed to come in a distant second.