11.  Although he threw three touchdown passes, including Jerry Rice's first touchdown pass from a quarterback this season, Grbac was not especially sharp.

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

13.  Defensively, the Rangers haven't fielded the first team.

14.  Denise Rao Monaghan and her husband, Jim, of Hopkinton, Mass., protested against Law for the first time since the scandal erupted.

15.  Denmark's first new note, worth 100 krone, recently entered circulation.

16.  Denmon started before being hurt on the first possession of the second half.

17.  Dennehy first appears, fabled salesman's cases in hand, as a sinister silhouette.

18.  Dennis Carlson sold his first wheat, grown on a field borrowed from his parents, in 1975, when he was 14 years old.

19.  Dennis Eckersley became the first free agent to agree to a new contract, re-signing Monday with the Oakland Athletics.

20.  Dennis Rodman barricaded himself in a side room for nearly one hour Wednesday night after his first game with Dallas and lifted weights.