1.  At Adelphia, "at first we were asked to look at accounting issues" and other specific questions, Boies said.

2.  At first it looked like a photograph of Ma Barker somehow got on the inside pages of The New York Times last week.

3.  At first it seemed as if Jackson's timing could not have been worse: Nashville was in the midst of a musical drought.

4.  At first she was despised the way Eleanor Roosevelt was despised.

5.  At first, doctors put PKU pa tients on the strict diet until age 8, figuring their brains were developed enough by then not to be damaged.

6.  At first, to get any water at all, the squatters joined a gymnasium in their East Village neighborhood, Arrosa-Penagaricano said.

7.  At first there is only the fact _ the crime itself, the death.

8.  At first, his "I see good people" idea seems to go bust.

9.  At first, she believes her 14-year-old is pulling some kind of defiant act.

10.  At first, stocks rose a bit and bond prices fell slightly, nothing more than would happen on a day bereft of news.