41.   To get the rest, Western will have to sweeten its offer again, said Andrew Jeffrey, an analyst with Robertson Stephens.

42.   To get the rest, Western will have to sweeten its offer more, said Andrew Jeffrey, an analyst with Robertson Stephens.

43.   Washington Gas Light Co. sweetened its offer to employees in a bid to resolve an impasse over contract talks with the International Union of Gas Workers.

44.   While the governors have been bickering, Maryland sweetened its offer.

45.   WorldCom may try to sweeten its offer, however, and that could give MCI holders a majority of the combined entity, analysts said.

46.   WPL and Interstate sweetened their offer today.

47.   Phelps Dodge sweetened its offer to acquire the copper makers, which already plan to merge and have rejected the unsolicited bid.

48.   A day before a BMW board meeting, spokesman Juerg Rinner also dismissed speculation that Munich-based BMW might sweeten its offer to purchase the prestigious British company.

49.   But the group sweetened the offer in a successful effort to win support.

50.   But some analysts suggested Shell would have to sweeten the offer for that to happen.