1.  As a comic actor, Brooks is exactly the way he has always been: funny if you like him or dry toast if you don't.

2.  Any way you cut it, there aren't exactly mobs beating doors down out there at Lucas.

3.  CuisinArt is the newest, having opened exactly a year ago this month, and is already holding its own.

4.  Depending, that is, on exactly how they obtain it.

5.  Deputy County Attorney Juan Martinez intends to prove Falater knew exactly what he was doing in the early hours of Jan. 16, 1996.

6.  Delsener had made $250,000 since the beginning of our relationship, while we had lost exactly that much.

7.  Despite a sincere desire to avoid doing so, the Celtics are finally giving its constituency exactly what it wants and needs.

8.  Despite long-standing efforts to identify the cornerstone, historians remain divided over exactly where it is located in the building.

9.  Customers of all sizes are looking for exactly what they want.

10.  Despite releasing a 60-page summary of their proposal Thursday, GOP leaders declined to explain exactly how they would reach their saving target.