1.   Mattel INC. is expected to sweeten its offer.

2.   Analysts expect Vons to pressure Safeway to sweeten the offer, which they said was already generous.

3.   Analysts were unsure whether Finance Minister Viktor Klima will keep to the Friday deadline, set last month, for the three bidders to sweeten their offers.

4.   As a defensive measure, Societe Generale is expected to sweeten its offer for Paribas.

5.   Brannon said he thought TWA would sweeten its offers to aircraft lessors, from whom it has been seeking a six-month moratorium on payments.

6.   A compromise is still possible, but Pfizer might have to sweeten its offer, including some price protection to offset any decline in its stock price.

7.   A report in La Tribune today said Suez shareholders could be offered an exceptional dividend to sweeten the offer.

8.   Broderbund, having sweetened its offer once, left it unchanged.

9.   But when Iowa State sweetened the offer, Floyd left.

10.   Cable executives said Microsoft had sweetened its offer in recent weeks, asking for a smaller percentage of revenue.