11.  Indeed, United Airlines has said that if it merges with US Airways, it will begin nonstop Asian service from several eastern cities, including Boston.

12.  It also supports a formal training course for aspiring players at the University of Erzincan, an eastern city where the sport has been popular for centuries.

13.  It took the elders of this eastern city three days after the Taliban melted away to form the kind of coalition that is so rare in Afghanistan.

14.  Jewish fighters capture the western portion of Jerusalem while Jordanian troops capture the eastern city and the Old City.

15.  --Jalalbad, an eastern city around which bin Laden is thought to have operated training camps for his Al-Qaida network.

16.  Latif, who comes from somewhere else, lives and works at a large construction site in some eastern Iranian city.

17.  Lacrosse remains rooted in the Northeast, though it has still failed to catch on in major eastern cities, including New York.

18.  Most prisoners interviewed at jails in the eastern cities of Sanliurfa, Erzurum and Erzincan told similar stories.

19.  Part of the heavy coverage was because the magazine listed the Washington metropolitan area as the best big Eastern city in which to live.

20.  Phelps Dodge Corp. wants to resculpt the Gila Mountains near this eastern Arizona city into open-pit copper mines.