91.   Directors, typically paid in cash, stock and stock options, meet several times each year to examine corporate activities.

92.   Dole has also spent little time this year speaking to minority groups.

93.   Dresdner and other German banks are reporting nine-month results for the first time this year.

94.   Drivers who led a lap for the first time this year were Jeff Burton, Mike Skinner, Nemechek, Compton and Todd Bodine.

95.   Direct deposit was offered to all taxpayers, including paper filers, for the first time this year.

96.   Each raised prices four times this year on their respective brands, Folgers and Maxwell House.

97.   Earth re-encounters the Perseid cloud of meteoric particles, most smaller than grains of sand, about this time every year.

98.   Eshelman broke new ground early in this one, allowing five runs for the first time this year.

99.   Election Day was a paid holiday for United Auto Workers members in Michigan for the first time this year.

100.   Everybody feels pretty good for the first time all year.