1.   Bluthenthal appears to be the one senior back in the doghouse after a short reprieve.

2.   But it was only a short reprieve.

3.   In protecting the presidency, we give this president a short reprieve.

4.   Kleiber, another former Politburo member who was sentenced to three and a half years, received a short reprieve, because his wife is ill.

5.   One condemned man received a short reprieve last week, but we have five more set to go before the end of this month.

6.   The people of Trainer, too, have been granted a short reprieve.

7.   After a short reprieve, battles in Kosovo intensified Tuesday, and a spokesman for ethnic Albanian militants blasted U.S. envoys for their policies in the troubled Serbian province.

8.   Early Saturday some of those Serbs felt a short reprieve when a convoy of Russian troops, whom the Serbs view as their allies, rolled into Pristina.

9.   After a short reprieve, snow began falling again on the US capital by late morning, keeping the Washington National Airport closed and complicating cleanup efforts.