1.   During the half-year that is considered heat season, other emergencies do not matter, as Ms. Surens learned.

2.   Economically destitute and considered a renegade movement by much of the world, the Taliban have few sources of income besides bin Laden.

3.   During the gracious exchanges, both stuck to their positions with carefully considered words.

4.   Even ordinary E-mail is a little less considered and a little more blunt than its handwritten forebears.

5.   Everything from comic strips to movie classics to criminals are considered -- and, sad to say, the icons of the Old South as well.

6.   Every word seems too carefully considered _ how much can be said on any topic without inviting criticism?

7.   Except here in Las Vegas, it used to be that betting on college basketball and other college sports was illegal, if not considered corrupting and immoral.

8.   Even more important, the announcement forced cosmologists to reconsider ideas once considered unthinkable.

9.   Federated considered buying Liberty House in 1997 but was deterred by a high asking price and an economic slump in Hawaii.

10.   Fernando Ferrer is soft-spoken, thoughtful and widely considered to be a good borough president.