1.   Born premature and blind, the Hallsburg boy spends hours listening to tapes of preaching and gospel music.

2.   But most of the day was spent listening to Hugo, who painstakingly recounted the evidence and criticized the two key prosecution witnesses as totally unreliable.

3.   Our formative years were spent listening to Joan Jett.

4.   The bench faces the endless ocean that Strauss never tired of, no matter how many vacations he spent listening to the surf.

5.   The day before the Davis Cup final was spent listening to Andre Agassi and to jokes about a soggy tennis court.

6.   Their time will be better spent listening to their school board candidates.

7.   He was too exhausted to count how many hours he spent listening.