101.   Opposition forces were hoping nationwide work stoppages and blockades would force Milosevic to accept defeat.

102.   Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has resisted Western calls for Milosevic to accept defeat, offered to mediate between the two men at a meeting in Moscow.

103.   Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has resisted Western calls for Milosevic to accept defeat, offered to mediate between Milosevic and his challenger at a meeting in Moscow.

104.   Sega Corp. accepted defeat early this year, abandoning the production of its Dreamcast machine.

105.   State Department spokesman Richard Boucher pledged, meanwhile, that sanctions against Yugoslavia would be lifted if Milosevic accepted defeat in his bid for re-election.

106.   Still, with most absentee voters soldiers who traditionally lean right, Labor Party officials appeared to be accepting defeat.

107.   That rule ended after a popular uprising last week forced Milosevic to accept defeat in presidential elections.

108.   The first mass graves outside Kosovo were found last year, after Milosevic was ousted in a popular revolt caused by his refusal to accept electoral defeat.

109.   The opposition flatly rejected repeating the elections again because it would mean accepting defeat in the November vote.

110.   The players, furthermore, like in a true democracy, learn to accept defeat, something that politicians here must still learn.