1.   After years of trying to prime the pump, government debt has also soared.

2.   But Polian probably is posturing, priming the pump for a potential trade-down with a club desperately seeking Williams.

3.   Dipping into the Social Security surplus may be too tempting to resist if he concludes that more federal spending is needed to prime the pump.

4.   Economists, notably Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, say US manufacturers have primed the pump for a turnaround by drawing down inventories.

5.   Even chains such as Bravo and Carrabbas have primed the pump a bit.

6.   Helen is relegated to empty one-night stands to prime the pump to write.

7.   If the market reformers win, it will be largely because the government has run out of cash to keep priming the pump.

8.   In the current political climate, there is another reason to prime the pump, economists say.

9.   Initially, the government primed the pump.

10.   It would be difficult, for example, to prime the pump by buying more sports teams.