1.   It was waiting on the corner of the square, poised to enter.

2.   But that left tons of ooze with the consistency of peanut butter poised to enter the river system with the spring floods.

3.   But with at least five other companies poised to enter the market, the competition and the inevitable economies of increasingly large-scale production should drive the prices down fast.

4.   The cable listed the number of Soviet, Czechoslovak and East German divisions poised to enter Poland.

5.   The older of two girls in the family, poised to enter college next year, Anne Reidy is easygoing and bubbly.

6.   They graduate poised to enter fields as diverse as architecture, child care, fitness training and interior design.

7.   U.S. intervention in Haiti was spurred, in large part, by fear of the flood of refugees poised to enter the United States.

8.   With allied peacekeepers poised to enter Kosovo, the role of Russian troops has emerged as one of the last major hurdles to a durable peace settlement.

9.   But now, with Yugoslav troops withdrawing from the province and an international peace force poised to enter, investigations can begin in earnest.

10.   With the high-profile abuse of power trial poised to enter its fourth week, the acrimony between defense and prosecution lawyers has grown.