1.  Denny Darnell, the NHRA's director of communications, declined comment on the Texas dates and on the shuffled schedule.

2.  Defined assignments with set due dates and specific markers along the way work wonders for the overachiever as well as her perfectionist boss.

3.  Deion keeps calling, but is he trying to get a date, or just to tie up the phone lines?

4.  Del Mar, which runs 43 dates and concluded Sept. 13, is the Saratoga of the West with an equally high quality of daily racing.

5.  Departure dates are March 6 and 13.

6.  Departure dates are Sunday, Nov. 9, and Sunday, March 8, 1998.

7.  Departure dates include March 26.

8.  Departures dates are available through September.

9.  Delayed more than three years beyond their first scheduled shipping date, the DVD+RW drives are not the first to bring DVD writing to the PC market.

10.  Delaying the effective date until next year would protect AK Media from breach-of-contract claims by the tobacco industry.