1.  Baseball, the institution, nearly presented a united front as solid as the other Jim Crow systems that battled change for nearly a generation after World War II.

2.  But the solid front may crack when the time comes later in the year to tally up who would lose the most from the budget cuts.

3.  Cracks are beginning to appear in the previously solid front of the union.

4.  Dole said at the time that his action did not amount to a split in what had been a solid Republican front in budget negotiations with the White House.

5.  For one of the few times this year, Republicans were split and Democrats maintained a solid front.

6.  LIKE ICE BREAKING in the spring, the solid front of pharmaceutical companies against allowing cheap, generic versions of their AIDS drugs into Africa is cracking.

7.  NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana predicted only a more solid allied front will emerge from the summit.

8.  Occasionally they presented a solid front.

9.  The heretofore solid front against minimum wages is really part of a long-running argument over the virtue of manipulating prices to achieve social objectives.

10.  The solid front of support from Republicans that House Speaker Newt Gingrich has enjoyed since he admitted to ethical lapses has started to break down.