1.   After an ugly public fight, ACOG consented to pull its one minor event from the conservative suburban county.

2.   All the suburban counties around New York City are facing tough times, with falling revenues and a slowing economy.

3.   Chester County is the only suburban county in southeastern Pennsylvania that shares no border with Philadelphia.

4.   Democratic New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has approved a similar system for New York City and two suburban counties.

5.   In Britain, Sierraman was then called Essexman after the suburban London county where he was said to conduct his upwardly mobile middle-class life.

6.   In some suburban counties, she noted, perhaps one-third of voters have cast a straight-Republican ballot.

7.   In suburban counties outside New York City, many legislative races are virtually decided, most in favor of incumbents.

8.   In the same years, divorces rose modestly in Kansas City itself and in a suburban county.

9.   In recent weeks, the anthrax scares have heightened public scrutiny of the two-tiered emergency response system in many suburban counties.

10.   In years past, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, and corresponding agencies in the suburban counties, set the allowable rent increases for regulated apartments.