11.  In the middle of the scale, zero would represent a neutral position.

12.  In the neutral position, the trap is open in something like a V-shaped position.

13.  It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a neutral position between Israelis and Palestinians, so emotional and religion-based is the division.

14.  Keeping wrists in a neutral position is a safeguard against repetitive strains of the wrist and elbow.

15.  Officials at Newport News, based in Newport News, Va., took a neutral position on the issue Friday.

16.  On the political front, the Clinton administration officially took a neutral position.

17.  President Bush phoned President Jiang on Thursday, urging the release of jailed U.S. citizens, but the Bush administration has taken a neutral position on the Olympic issue.

18.  Sylvia Oxenreider of Fort Worth was one who thought the journalists should have abandoned their neutral positions in all cases.

19.  The faster the plane flies, the closer the limiter holds the rudder to the neutral position.

20.  The Giants campaign received a boost last week, when an advisory committee from the neighboring Rincon Point-South Beach area adopted a neutral position of the issue.