1.   Nothing gets the crowd or the players pumped up more than a good slam dunk.

2.   The slam dunk was the final, dramatic proof that women could play a game recognizable to male fans of the sport.

3.   The case is a slam dunk.

4.   Although database companies sell mainly to big businesses, many small investors have snapped up database stocks, which were almost a slam dunk until last year.

5.   Analysts stressed Friday that a Seagram-PolyGram deal is not a slam dunk.

6.   And a lawsuit, that looks like a slam dunk for TMS.

7.   Anything Kennedy would seem to be a Baby-Boomer slam dunk as a museum exhibit.

8.   Approval is no slam dunk.

9.   Ashley inspires his charges to treat chess like any other sports competition, complete with slam dunks.

10.   A decade later, his decision looks like a slam dunk.