1.   Everyone knew the real Jim Jackson was under that New Jersey Nets jersey somewhere, waiting to burst out.

2.   He wintered at Santa Anita, and while waiting out the persistent rain that curtailed his training, he grew up.

3.   Most of Tuesday was spent evacuating residents who earlier had refused help, intent on waiting out the flood.

4.   After waiting out an Arctic storm, a Dutch consortium resumed preparations Monday for lifting part of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine.

5.   If the ball had popped back the other way, they would have been off the court immediately, waiting out the rain, the outcome undecided.

6.   That raised the possibility that some golfers who are playing at Augusta National next week might withdraw rather than endure an agonizing weekend of waiting out the weather.