11.  DENTIST-AIDS (Undated) _ Dentists must heat-sterilize their equipment to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus because the virus can escape chemical disinfectant.

12.  Denver area residents came together Wednesday evening because, in many cases, they didn't know what else to do, he said.

13.  Denver newspapers have suggested he has been reacting in pique because the bureau once rejected him for a management class.

14.  Denver would have prevailed in court because the city was protected through safe harbor clauses from any construction delays, he said.

15.  Denver would seem to have the edge because Shanahan has been there before and is close to quarterback John Elway as well to Bowlen.

16.  Deficit hawks in his administration won an argument to speed up the timing because they saw that Republicans were winning the battle for public opinion.

17.  Deficit reduction is key, analysts said, because it could help control the government's costs at a time interest rates are running at 20 percent or more.

18.  Deficits are expected to balloon toward the end of the decade, primarily because health expenditures under Medicare and Medicaid will soar.

19.  Deficits went up too, of course, but that's because spending increased even faster than taxes.

20.  Defining New York humor is also difficult because it changes.