1.  And that is where the U.S. anxiety comes in, because the United States is a crucial player in the balancing act.

2.  And two crucial players, goalie Mike Richter and forward Pat Verbeek, have returned after long layoffs.

3.  But Albright and the State Department have not been crucial players, White House officials say.

4.  Dogs are crucial players in the Simpson case.

5.  Earlier this century, French collectors were crucial players in the visual arts, not only encouraging promising young artists but also bequeathing their collections to museums.

6.  Hackney is seen as another crucial player.

7.  It makes perfect sense today, since Moreno and Ford ended up at USC and are crucial players on defense.

8.  Markey was a crucial player in the four-year struggle to deregulate the telecommunications industry legislation that created new business opportunities for telephone, cable and utility companies.

9.  McConnell, who runs a Civil War memorabilia shop, has been a crucial player in the apparent compromise.

10.  Some memos, especially ones attributed to Tennant, are hard to decipher, filled with initials of crucial players, sentence fragments and unclear references.