1.   A troublesome tom turkey has attacked postal trucks, pecking at their tires and preventing carriers from delivering mail to nine homes in recent months.

2.   Earlier this year, the Transportation Department proposed a series of guidelines designed to prevent larger carriers from preying on smaller airlines.

3.   Earlier this year, the Transportation Department proposed guidelines designed to prevent major carriers from preying on smaller, discount carriers.

4.   Japan Telecom yesterday said it would like to cooperate with KDD -- as soon as the government revises regulations that prevent the carrier from offering domestic phone service.

5.   Other Japanese business practices, including not scheduling longshoremen on Sundays and preventing oceanic carriers from changing designated dock worker companies, known as stevedores.

6.   Several times over the last six months, a troublesome tom has attacked postal trucks, pecking at their tires and preventing carriers from delivering mail to nine homes.

7.   The reason for the speedup is to prevent Canadian carriers from getting a competitive head start.

8.   Vanguard Marketing Director Randy Smith said SEC regulations prevented the carrier from commenting further.

9.   A NAFTA panel ruled in February that the United States was violating the treaty by preventing the carriers from operating north of the border and by blocking the investments.

10.   Major creditors have agreed to resume talks with Philippine Airlines on a proposed rehabilitation plan in an attempt to prevent the carrier from closing, an official said Thursday.