1.   Telephone Mr Bennett -- Apologise for delay in getting back -- I had to confirm holiday arrangements!.

2.   Please send us a copy of your letter confirming the arrangements.

3.   A Northrop spokesman confirmed the arrangement.

4.   John Coate, general manager of SFGate, confirmed the arrangement at his company.

5.   Kors confirmed the arrangement but declined to discuss it further.

6.   Neither store would confirm those arrangements.

7.   No arrangements have been confirmed.

8.   Stepashin seemed to confirm that arrangement earlier this week, only to see Yeltsin reverse it and appoint a new finance minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, Friday.

9.   They confirmed their arrangement the morning of the vote in a letter.