51.   An announcement was expected before the markets opened on Monday in Germany, the executives said.

52.   An exhibition of Ingres portraits opened on Wednesday at the National Gallery and will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall.

53.   An unoffical forum of independent organization opens on Wednesday in China to set the stage for the main event.

54.   And because the mall would be in Bergen County, which has a blue-law ban, it could not open on Sundays.

55.   Analysts said that while the reaction to one monthly report was overdone, there was a distinct chance the selling could continue when markets open on Monday.

56.   And Frida Kahlo outshines an entire generation of her contemporaries in a lively survey of Mexican modernist painting that opens on Sunday at El Museo del Barrio.

57.   And government investigators are cracking down with fines on stores that open on the Jewish Sabbath.

58.   And if possible, pack them away, to be opened only on ceremonial occasions.

59.   And it could weaken European currencies against the dollar when the financial markets open on Monday.