The company is sitting in the catbird seat of the $50-billion global video game business.

That left management of these firms sitting in the catbird seat as we head into 2002.

Maybe he's remembering that he still gets one more chance to sit in the catbird seat with other celebrities.

Hell, Russia and China were sitting in the catbird seat now.

The 1965 will gives him voting control of the family business so he winds up sitting in the catbird seat regardless.

THE oil-producing nations are finally sitting in the catbird seat again.

Howard Baker is sitting in the catbird seat.

And now Del Rio's sitting in the catbird seat because he had the stones to make the call.

And he says 'We're sitting in the catbird seat' when he means the Dodgers are in good shape.

Sitting in the catbird seat!

You might have thought that with Borders shutting down, Barnes and Noble would be sitting in the catbird seat.

"He's sitting in the catbird seat on this issue," said Robert Joffee, director of the Mason-Dixon Florida Poll.

Thinking Marketing With clients, whom lawyers once took for granted, now sitting in the catbird seat, almost any legal journal instructs lawyers on how better to drum up business.

"Alaska continues to sit in the catbird seat, given its attractive West Coast niche," analyst Daniel McKenzie of Hudson Securities wrote in a recent research report.

As the cigarette cases continue to course through the courts - there are still 50 to 60, many of which Shook, Hardy is handling - the firm is still sitting in the catbird seat.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, sitting in the catbird seat with excess capacity, sold the ISO some 1,200 MW at the capped rate of $250/MWh.

"Being liberated enough to be able to learn all the time and to share that pleasure with others," Mr. Wechsler said, "means finally sitting in the catbird seat, which is one way of explaining the name of my press."

Also sitting in the catbird seat in California is Bull Frog Green Energy, a Nevada start-up co-founded by Dan Kabel, the chief executive of Spanish solar developer Acciona Energy’s American operations.

Among the major broadcast networks, the News Corp unit is clearly sitting in the catbird seat, finishing out a season as the most watched network -- both overall and with younger viewers -- thanks to its blockbuster "American Idol."

A Yankee Dime and Other Reginal Expressions Some years ago, when sportscaster Red Barber used Southern expressions like sitting in the catbird seat and tearing up the pea patch , there was a degree of national amusement.

Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from Red Barber, a baseball broadcaster, and that to Barber "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him."