1.   Are judged by informed observers to be substantially better than comparable groups.

2.   At the same time, some informed observers doubt the judge will be swayed by recent government feelers to investment bankers on how best to break up Microsoft.

3.   According to at least one informed observer, Zeta-Jones has not only the ability but the attitude that should serve her well in the business.

4.   Few informed observers would quarrel with these assertions.

5.   Informed observers estimate that last year alone eight tonnes of Laos opium moved from the border down highway seven and on to big cities north and south.

6.   Kelly, Greenwald and most other informed observers say they expect all the studios to promote rentals and issue movies in both Divx and open DVD formats.

7.   Records and interviews with informed observers suggest that Weld the drug fighter has been neither a hero nor a hack.

8.   She has been reduced to an informed observer here, a small but necessary part, a link for the audience with the exotic doings on stage.

9.   To at least one informed observer, though, it seems inevitable that the team will return.

10.   Also on the firing line, according to informed observers, are two other CITU votaries, industries minister Susheela Gopalan and fisheries minister T.K. Ramakrishnan.