31.   Deputy Mayor John S. Dyson and MTA officials had agreed Monday morning to meet before the day was over to try to save the passes.

32.   Do you recall ever having met her before today?

33.   Dumas did not work out with the Suns Monday, but the team met before practice to discuss his return to the club.

34.   Earlier at Le Cirque, a visitor whom Tihany had not met before was clearly disgusted by the neon sculpture in the bar.

35.   Even agencies that used to strongly advocate anonymity now recommend, or require, that biological and adoptive parents meet before an adoption.

36.   Fifty percent of teens who use IM reported that they have IMed, emailed or chatted with someone they have not met before.

37.   First, Lio and Antoniou met shortly before midnight at a White Hen Pantry on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park.

38.   Friday, lawyers for the companies met before Judge James R. Spencer to discuss a temporary restraining order against Mead, according to court officials.

39.   For years Beach had carried a picture of the son he had never met before Saturday.

40.   Foreign ministers, who had planned to meet before the meeting in the nearby resort town of Portofino, instead will gather in Rome on Wednesday and Thursday.