11.   The publisher has since agreed to the request, and the Web site is expected to be ready shortly, perhaps later this week.

12.   The publishers agree that the city has a legitimate interest in promoting urban aesthetics and safe sidewalks, and that the profusion of news racks can be a nuisance.

13.   The proposal would apply only to elementary and secondary textbooks, because only those publishers agreed to the plan.

14.   The publisher agreed and commissioned a writer.

15.   Dutch publisher VNU has agreed to acquire U.S. information provider Market Metrics, Inc., the company announced Tuesday.

16.   Rival publisher Macmillan soon agreed to publish the book on similar terms.

17.   The textbook was one of eight approved by an Education Ministry panel after the publishers agreed to revise passages that were deemed incorrect or misleading.