41.   But the program was extended as more corporate sponsors and participants signed on.

42.   Democrats are insisting on extending a program that would include new and costly health care benefits along with retraining for workers displaced by imports.

43.   Earlier this week, CompuServe extended the program to some Apple Macintosh computers, including the iMac marketed for home Internet use.

44.   He demanded the program be extended to survivors in the former East bloc.

45.   He said it was up to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to recommend whether to extend the program and whether to increase the amount of oil Iraq can sell.

46.   He said the help from the OAS would extend the program for a year.

47.   His announcement extended a program of sheltering refugees that had been due to expire in June.

48.   If the drug proves effective, the program will be extended.

49.   In December, the U.N. Security Council extended the program for six months.

50.   In earlier statements, minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh said Iraq would not agree to extend the program and therefore the U.N. workers would have to go home.