1.  Any private party may get a bridge, but a state Bridge Proposal Review Committee decides on the suitability of its projected use.

2.  Deputy insurance commissioner Richard O'Shee said the state found Venture Health qualified and approved the sale.

3.  Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz declined to state absolutely that Washington was to be the target and stressed that the plot was foiled early.

4.  Deputy sheriffs around the state have recently joined a union, as have more than 3,000 graduate school assistants at the State University of New York.

5.  Denise I. Robison, deputy secretary for the state Department of Aging, lives in a house at one end of the row.

6.  Denmark, Norway and Sweden now allow homosexual partners to register with the state and to claim many (though not all) of the prerogatives of marriage.

7.  Dennis "ruled after an evidentiary hearing after defense counsel had the opportunity to confront some of the state's witnesses," Benedict said.

8.  Dennis Henigan, an attorney for Handgun Control Inc., said the proposed bill "would have a chilling effect" on state and local gun control.

9.  Dennis right now is in a state of denial, like a guy who's just been told he has cancer.

10.  Dennis said that Kansas lawmakers had talked about using state money to reduce class sizes but that no measure had passed the Kansas House or Senate.