31.   Cordial formally announced his resignation late yesterday, after a lengthy meeting with Xylan president and chief executive Steven Kim.

32.   Concern about weakening computer stocks spread after software publisher Sybase Inc. late yesterday said it lost money in the first three months of the year.

33.   Converse, based in North Reading, Massachusetts, also reported increased demand for its products late yesterday.

34.   Datum disclosed the expected shortfall in demand in its third-quarter earnings announcement late yesterday.

35.   Deputies voted late yesterday to grant special powers to the administration to cut expenditure by reducing the number of state employees and government departments.

36.   Deputies voted late yesterday to grant special powers to the administration to cut expenditures by reducing the number of state employees and government departments.

37.   Elsewhere, U.S. refiner Tosco Corp. and a union representing workers at three California refineries late yesterday reached a tentative agreement averting a strike.

38.   Enough were persuaded to buy all the bonds by late yesterday.

39.   Florida officials said late yesterday they planned to sell state Board of Education refunding bonds.

40.   Grace said late yesterday that it had rejected a proposal to merge with Hercules.