1.  Although his strumming hand was mangled in a factory accident years before, he played a decent rhythm guitar.

2.  Any plan's first obstacle might well lie with the growers themselves, embittered by years of fumigation and confrontation with government authorities.

3.  Defensive line coach Tom Ramage has been there 23 years, offensive line coach Roger French 16.

4.  Denman co-starred with Reagan in the 1951 movie "Bedtime for Bonzo" and has been active in the Texas GOP for many years.

5.  Dennis says being together has added years to their lives.

6.  Dent dropped out of the 10th grade while living in Oakland and spent years as a struggling poet, painter and sculptor in the Bay Area and Las Vegas.

7.  DeNucci has said recordkeeping was also poor in Abandoned Property, which Foley oversaw in recent years.

8.  Denver had been moving in that direction the last couple years anyway, but now Shanahan is installing basically the same playbook he used with the 49ers.

9.  Deficits seem certain for the next few years, and there no longer seems much chance of paying off the bulk of the national debt.

10.  Definitely, as she says, she has "lived some" in recent years.