This city usually greets the naming of a street with a collective yawn.

But the collective yawns may have only underscored how quickly the communications industry is changing and how important the wireless sector - once a backwater - has become.

Even in Washington, the rebuttal will elicit, at most, a collective yawn - unless it takes a dramatic turn.

The Federal Reserve's fourth increase in interest rates since the summer was greeted by investors with a collective yawn yesterday.

If you're like most women, these phrases have become mantras, the echo of our collective yawn growing louder every day.

"You're watching history in the making," I would tell them, only to be met with a collective yawn and a bemused look from my captive audience of teen-agers.

A collective yawn has begun to rise.

The whole vast theater seemed to sigh in a collective yawn.

In one massive collective yawn, thirty million people change the channel.

Instead, the news media greeted its shocking contents with a collective yawn.