1.   At first they could come up only with enough names to fill two columns on a yellow pad.

2.   But all right, so the worst Bender could muster was to order a few heavy sessions with the yellow hitting pad.

3.   Each evening, Gene Hall Reagor, the woman who runs Pecan Creek Ranch near Llano, pens to-do lists on a small yellow pad.

4.   He carries a little yellow pad with a to-do list.

5.   He prefers a yellow pad.

6.   He sat in the back of the press room and took notes on a yellow pad while Parcells held his news conference.

7.   Hurriedly Bush wrote a statement on a yellow pad with a black felt-tip pen.

8.   Start writing, which I do with a felt-tipped pen and a large yellow pad.

9.   Unlike Panetta, who ran a highly centralized White House managed from a list he kept on a yellow pad, Bowles has delegated responsibility.