1.   Bollenbach declined to comment before then.

2.   Coke declined to comment before next week.

3.   Diamondbacks Manager Buck Showalter commented before the game how good the field looked.

4.   Fritsche said VW would not comment before Monday.

5.   Harnisch, who is usually open with reporters, declined to comment before leaving for the airport.

6.   He would not comment before the meeting.

7.   State board President Reed Hastings declined to comment before the public hearing as did other board members.

8.   Texaco spokesman Jim Swords declined to comment before seeing specific remarks made at the news conference.

9.   The head of the office of public affairs at the FTC, Cathy MacFarlane, said that Muris would not comment before his talk on Thursday.

10.   The public, he said, will have several months to comment before the agency issues final rules with the force of law.