31.   Or meeting the press.

32.   On Wednesday morning, Purcell, Mack and Fisher met the press, the deal done.

33.   Only hours before Jones was supposed to meet the press at HBO headquarters in New York, he called to say the deal was off.

34.   So the ruddy, florid-faced English-African-Rhodesian had the trophy safe in hand and met the press in the graceful old Pinehurst clubhouse.

35.   Something about ensuring those dead spots survive . . . A few floors up, GM- turned-coach M.L. Carr meets the press for the first time.

36.   The coach claimed that he asked his players if they wanted to meet the press and the players said they did not.

37.   The governor and doctor meet the press.

38.   The Patriots announced that he would meet the press Thursday.

39.   The presidents will meet the press tomorrow afternoon to formally announce the delay in the merger, originally scheduled for April.

40.   The Tokyo Stock Exchange asked Sumitomo Trust to meet the press to comment on the report, said a spokesman for the exchange.