1.   But an Oracle spokesman said the company had stipulated to the detective firm that nothing illegal was to be done in the operation.

2.   Norman Harrison, president and chief executive of the detective firm, issued a statement saying he had no comment.

3.   The New York-based corporate detective firm sued Coopers and three former Kroll managers in May.

4.   Police sources say the newspapers are suspected of spying on each other as part of their bitter circulation war -- at times using the same detective firm.