1.   After a short stint in a business house in New York City, Herman resolved to go to sea.

2.   As long as the Lakers keep playing close games, Bryant will remain limited to short stints that end by the second quarter.

3.   Before his most recent short stint in the NHL, however, DeBrusk had some interesting observations that bear repeating.

4.   A free agent after this season, Harris has been beaten out for playing time by Dumas and admits to pressing to impress during recent short stints.

5.   A short stint at Purdue was followed by his enrollment at UNLV, where he was a defensive lineman.

6.   After a short stint as a merchant marine, Worrell landed in Nassau where he got a job as a switchboard attendant for the Bahamas Electricity Corp.

7.   After a short stint in the army, he drifted into motorcycle gangs and drug dealing.

8.   After short stints with the Dictograph Products Co. and Schick Dry Shaver, he joined the Miller Printing Machinery Co. of Pittsburgh as a salesman.

9.   Both recall the short stints in the countryside to have been almost vacations compared with their usual lives at a ballet academy.

10.   But eight months later, after a short stint with another brokerage, he changed his mind.