1.  Derek Jeter has taken to adjusting his batting gloves between pitches.

2.  Designer logos have taken off again.

3.  Cummings has lately taken responsibility for his role in breaking up the Bachman-Cummings partnership in 1970.

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

5.  Della Barrett of Santa Monica, Calif., had taken a cooking class from Alex back home.

6.  Derek Fisher and Jon Barry, who dished those last two shots to Bryant, could have taken the shots themselves.

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

8.  Design has taken on its own life, and this raises a problem often encountered in consumer culture.

9.  Democracy has never taken a firm foothold.

10.  Despite a slow start earlier this year, initial and secondary public offerings of software, communications, electronic components and integrated circuit-making firms have taken off.