21.   The Dodgers were expected to look into a contract extension before the three-year deal he signed after his Rookie of the Year season expired.

22.   The legislation was signed shortly after the resignation of Quackenbush, who left office after reports that he profited politically from insurance-settlement money.

23.   The president decided to sign it after two planes carrying Cuban exiles were shot down in February by Cuban fighters.

24.   The typewritten confession that Ms. Saldivar signed hours after the shooting makes no mention of an accident.

25.   Their signing before the end of the period means they do not fall under the trade restrictions that clubs face with free agents who sign after the period.

26.   Treaties outlawing such barbarities were signed soon after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.

27.   Tomas Vlasak was signed after leading the Czech Republic to the World Championships.

28.   Academics and democracy activists are predicting mass protests if Parliament rejects the constitution, which otherwise would go to King Bhumibol Adulyadej for signing after parliamentary approval.

29.   Both deals were signed after assurances from the Russians that no donated food would be re-exported.