41.   Officials from Roosevelt Raceway had extended an invitation, all expenses paid, to the International Trot, which annually brings together the top trotters in the world.

42.   Olivero Toscani, the advertising and creative director of Benetton, extended an invitation to the ski-masked, pipe-smoking Marcos last year.

43.   On Tuesday, Bush extended invitations to some of the Democratic moderates most likely to bolt their party on the issues the new president cares most about.

44.   Once the invitations are extended, NATO and the invited countries will begin negotiating the actual terms of membership.

45.   OpSail has extended an invitation to the tall ships from six ports on the eastern seaboard, including New London.

46.   One reason was to keep bowls from extending invitations to certain teams before they finished fall two-a-days.

47.   President Henri Konan Bedie of the Ivory Coast extended an invitation to American investors.

48.   Senate Republican leaders have not decided whether to extend an invitation to Clinton.

49.   Robertson maintains that there is no need to pay such fees when the president of the United States extends an invitation to all the tall ship captains.

50.   Saddam did not extend the invitation to weapons inspectors, and U.N. officials are not viewing the offer as serious.