11.  Any pleas Tucker might make based on her turning her life over to God apparently will not carry much weight with some parole board members.

12.  Any predictions about the 2000 presidential race made now, more than three years before the vote, inevitably will be risky, stupid and wrong.

13.  Any proper convergence, therefore, may have to await even more complicated economic reforms and convertibility.

14.  Any proposals to increase public spending could cause bonds to fall, since resulting economic growth might make an interest rate increase more likely.

15.  Denktash, normally the more voluble of the two, pronounced the start of the talks "very good."

16.  Dennis Green will most likely work out his problems with the owners, because there is a good chance the Vikings will go deep into the playoffs.

17.  Dennis Jr. now has a stack of e-mails and faxes to read, more stuff on top of Mrs. Rooker's usual homework assignments.

18.  Dennis Martinez will most likely be elected the president of Nicaragua before he wins another game at Yankee Stadium.

19.  Dennis Russell Davies led a vibrant performance and elicited some of the firmest and most transparent playing the American Composers Orchestra has produced in recent seasons.

20.  Dennis wrote, "It is the most miserable of existences and devoid of anything to break the mind-devouring scourge of monotony.