1.  Any proposals made by the charter commission would be placed on a ballot and voted upon, as a referendum, as early as November.

2.  As a condition of making the agency permanent, DiBrienza has insisted that the unit be equipped with cots and cribs for families waiting to be placed.

3.  Denominated in dollars, it was the first such parcel ever put up by the post-communist Kremlin and the largest East European bond issue ever placed.

4.  Defying history and Henry Ford, the plantations are thriving, placing Brazil back on the road to self-sufficiency in rubber for the first time since 1950.

5.  Cuba, Brazil and China placed 1-2-3.

6.  Derived from the Greek word for "knowing," gnosis places God within the self.

7.  Cultured pearls are formed by placing an irritant into the shell of an edible shellfish such as an oyster.

8.  Depending upon where you place your woofer, you will either get plenty of good bass, boomy bass or very little of either.

9.  Delicately, he placed his 10-month-old son, Anajae, into the lap of his longtime teammate.

10.  Dell placed third in worldwide shipments, followed by HP and Gateway.