1.   Dropping my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George.

2.   An official of Major League Baseball said it had asked umpires who had remained loyal to Phillips to ask him about dropping the suit.

3.   And though the suit was later dropped, officials said, the drumbeat of Venezuelan complaints continued.

4.   As Bertelsmann is only one of a number of plaintiffs seeking damages from Napster, it could not on its own simply drop the suit.

5.   Attorneys for the cities and agencies urged them to drop the suits, filed in October, said Michael Martello, attorney for Mountain View, California.

6.   Bertelsmann said it would drop its suit once the new service was in place.

7.   Beverly Enterprises appealed, but on Tuesday it dropped the suit, asserting that Ms. Bronfenbrenner had acknowledged that her research did not back up her criticisms.

8.   Both suits were dropped in February.

9.   Both sides agreed to drop the suit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.

10.   Both sides eventually agreed to drop their suits.