1.   But this year nine of the top investment banks have been plotting ways to beat the tax increases.

2.   I worked myself into a frenzy plotting ways to make him jealous.

3.   As the Randy Johnson trade backlash subsides, Mariner executives are perusing the major league waiver wire, plotting ways to improve the team both short- and long-term.

4.   Coach Homer Drew is not plotting ways to stop Keenan Jourdon, who will not be remembered as one of the all-time great Boston College players.

5.   Democrats are plotting ways to oust Bush in two years.

6.   Developments such as these have the new brokerages plotting ways to do more.

7.   For the antacid study, the Housecalls team has been patiently plotting its way from house to house, visiting one woman after another who suffers from persistent dyspepsia.

8.   For years Lillie Luckett has been on the committee that meets at Marcus and plots ways to bring back the bustle to long, fallow stretches of MLK.

9.   Gretzky will be the strategic commander, plotting ways to eviscerate the enemy.

10.   I try to plot my way around the golf course.