1.  Currently, the Silversteins are doing their best to win the 99-year lease for the World Trade Center, a deal worth $3.25 billion.

2.  Cusack does the best he can with a floating Cajun accent and wounded naivete.

3.  Despite limited resources, Georgia Southern is doing its best to promote Adrian Peterson for the Heisman Trophy award.

4.  Democrats are doing their best to place the blame on President Bush and his tax cut.

5.  Dennis Erickson is doing his best to make sure his Oregon State football team maintains proper perspective concerning the Beavers 3-0 beginning.

6.  Dennis Rodman did his best to upstage the Knicks-Bulls hype by making a cameo at the team's Berto Center practice facility here.

7.  Dictionary makers would like factoid to go on meaning what what Mailer said it meant, and they're doing their best.

8.  Did she do her best in the Olympics?

9.  Despite the novel's plot _ a writer sends a man-eating plant to a publishing house that rejected his manuscript _ Big Publishing did its best to appear unruffled.

10.  Despite their obvious differences, both Albright and Ivanov did their best to maintain an upbeat tone.