11.   A spokesman for baseball said the sport might reconsider its suspension of Steinbrenner if the Yankees and Adidas dropped the lawsuit.

12.   After he reportedly apologized to her on the telephone last week and offered her a cut of his potential professional earnings, she dropped her lawsuit against him.

13.   After the Poly lawsuit was abruptly dropped, the Keng family stayed in the import business.

14.   Bush should instruct his lawyers to drop their lawsuit and let the state and local Florida officials do their duty under the law.

15.   But if successful, Bertelsmann said it would drop its lawsuit and encourage the other four major record labels to do the same.

16.   But under pressure from AIDS activists, it dropped the lawsuit last month.

17.   Chilean stocks rallied after two leading telecommunications companies agreed to drop all lawsuits filed against each other, sending their stocks higher.

18.   Commission officials said that the lawsuit would be dropped if the proposal was passed.

19.   COMPAQ AND PACKARD SETTLE Compaq and Packard Bell settled a nasty feud, agreeing to drop lawsuits without any money changing hands.

20.   Cummins said he has tried to persuade Botelho to drop the lawsuit because most fishermen are broke or close to it and the suit would only make them martyrs.