1.   Delegalization offers the promise of financial savings, even if the divorce rate remains high.

2.   New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.

3.   And if a rain shower dampens the fun, it also offers the promise that a new rainbow will soon decorate the sky.

4.   And where God offers promises of Lear jets from cloud to cloud.

5.   At the same time, old methods offer the promise of recovering an intimacy to photographic communication that mass media have all but overwhelmed.

6.   Berk said humor offers real promise for the immune system, which now has trouble fighting the common cold, not to mention diseases such as AIDS.

7.   A definitive story of The Tempts, whose rise is well-documented but whose fall has always been somewhat sketchy, certainly offers great promise.

8.   A Sunday editorial praised both Green and one of his rivals, Alan G. Hevesi, but concluded that Green offered more promise.

9.   A wedge-shaped lot near Davis Square here offered promise.