11.   Aluminum Co. of America withdrew from a bidding group led by Cia. Siderurgica Nacional, the largest steel company in Brazil, said CSN spokesman Francisco Padilha.

12.   AMD Inc., on the other hand, is hiring product test and development engineers, semiconductor design engineers and process engineers, said spokesman Robert Durand.

13.   American and United will have a bilateral system in place soon, said American spokesman Tim Smith.

14.   An announcement will be made before Monday morning, said MCI spokesman Frank Walter.

15.   Amgen Chairman and Chief Executive Gordon Binder has publicly spoken of plans to make acquisitions like Synergen, said company spokesman David Kaye.

16.   AMR Chairman Robert Crandall and Tam President Rolim Adolfo Amaro will explain the details of the agreement then, said Tam spokesman Paulo Pompilio.

17.   And as a result of its popularity, the kid-friendly pizza chain Chuck E. Cheese will begin airing bilingual commercials, said Nickelodeon spokesman David Bittler.

18.   And the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, was reviewing the possibility of a criminal investigation, said his spokesman, Barbara Thompson.

19.   And the staff was prepared for the deluge, said a spokesman Tom McNaught.