1.  Any plan that's saved up even a sliver of national championship implications for the FSU-Florida game can't be all bad.

2.  Any support Education Alternatives had from parents flagged when the company pitched a budget in May that would have saved $13 million _ by laying off 350 teachers.

3.  Dennis Kordich, the third 49er pitcher, got the win, and Jason Marr pitched the ninth for his ninth save and second in the CWS.

4.  Dentists say that if a tooth cannot be saved, an implant is the next-best thing.

5.  Defibrillators cost about $20,000 and a comparable amount to implant, but they are credited with saving thousands of lives since their introduction in 1985.

6.  Deregulation is expected to drive down the cost of electricity, saving residential customers an average of $17 a month, consumer groups say.

7.  Designed to save more than $125 million a year, the restructuring is unlikely to improve results until mid-2001.

8.  Designer Pilar Strutin-Belinoff cut business cards by hand to save $500.

9.  Cultivating loyalty saves companies money.

10.  DePace saved his life by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.