21.   Bonds will continue to get a boost from the change in active bond futures contracts from September to December.

22.   A big reason for that is intense competition for power-generation contracts from European companies with government subsidies.

23.   A club can stop an assistant coach who is under contract from joining another team unless the assistant is interviewing for a head coaching job.

24.   A player has not exercised such an option before and Goodwin is not seeking any change to his current contract from the Dodgers.

25.   A researcher at the University of Southern California, Postel works under a contract from the Defense Department.

26.   Adam Oates backed off his demands for a new contract from the Washington Capitals and will begin playing with the team tonight as they fight for a playoff spot.

27.   Aetna officials said the New York health plan has been converting many doctor contracts from fee-for-service agreements to flat-fee arrangements.

28.   Alexandre Vinokourov, a Kazakh who was lured with a big contract from a French team, was among the favorites in the Criterium International.

29.   Business lobbyists unsuccessfully proposed last year that Congress clearly define as freelancers people with written contracts from companies.

30.   But almost all commercial businesses must go through Network Solutions, which has a contract from the National Science Foundation to register domain names.