1.   The metro editor sent me to cover a soccer team pep rally at Columbia University.

2.   Amelio himself has said saving Apple will be a drawn-out process of reorganization, focus and stringent cost-cutting, not a one-time pep rally.

3.   And it was player rep Darren Daulton who made a point of not joining Donald Fehr on stage during the union pep rally last week in Orlando.

4.   Arthur C. Martinez, chief executive of Sears, wanted town hall meetings, pep rallies really.

5.   As old as pep rallies and point spreads, the tradition of agents paying stars under the table now looms as the biggest threat to college sports.

6.   Asked what it would take to motivate his team after losing the decisive third game of the Division Series, Dierker quipped sharply about having a pep rally.

7.   As the House was convening Thursday morning, President Clinton arrived at the Capitol for a Democratic pep rally in a Senate office building.

8.   As the pep rally dissolves in applause, one of the waiters puts the scene into perspective.

9.   At a pep rally Friday night, Abercrombie sensed a different atmosphere.

10.   At a recent pep rally in the high school gym, the newly integrated cheerleading squad led the restless student body in supporting the basketball team.