1.   First Bank agreed to drop its lawsuits against another bank as a result of the Decision.

2.   Among the provisions of the deal, Mesa apparently would drop its lawsuit against the dissident group.

3.   Any move to drop the lawsuit is certain to anger anti-smoking advocates who pressed the Clinton administration to initiate the action.

4.   As part of the settlement, GM said it would drop a lawsuit it had filed against the Transportation Department and Pena in federal court in Detroit.

5.   Attorney General John Ashcroft tried to ease concerns Thursday that the government was about to drop its lawsuit against tobacco companies for allegedly hiding the harmful effects of smoking.

6.   Baltimore would agree to drop its lawsuit against the league, and Cleveland would drop its lawsuit against Modell.

7.   Beneficial National Bank dropped a lawsuit against the IRS.

8.   -- Chrysler agreed to drop its lawsuit against him.

9.   -- Iacocca dropped his lawsuit against the company.

10.   A group of investors yesterday dropped eight lawsuits against Intel Corp. that had accused the maker of the flawed Pentium chip of securities fraud.