1.  Denizens of Martha's Vineyard, relax: President Clinton and his family are not taking their vacation there this year.

2.  Depositors haven't taken long to do their arithmetic.

3.  Despite a similar lead earlier this week, the Clinton campaign took no chances.

4.  Derrick Higgins won't take a charge in a pickup game.

5.  Despite all the reverberations from the results, the straw poll should not be taken too seriously _ not just because of the out-of-state participation.

6.  Delta has not taken its massacre in Greenville-Spartanburg lightly.

7.  Despite early comparisons to three-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon, Irwin's Cup career never took off with Yates, who fired him after the 1999 season.

8.  Despite his fame, he didn't take himself or his movie career too seriously.

9.  Despite his height advantage over most of the teen-age soccer fanatics, Greene, at 5 feet 10 inches, did not take home a soccer ball.

10.  Democracy has never taken a firm foothold.