31.   Music executives see a few possible outcomes.

32.   Music industry executives said such a deal would have a number of pluses and minuses for both sides.

33.   Music industry executives say many compact disk factories simply produce legal recordings during the day and illegal ones at night.

34.   Nearly twice as many music industry executives as last year are attending this conference.

35.   Music executives are notoriously quick to make gibes about their colleagues.

36.   Music executives and fans across the country are echoing her sentiments, calling the hearings unfair and one-sided.

37.   Rival music executives are uniformly positive about Fuchs.

38.   Rocawear is run by Damon Dash, a music executive, and rapper Jay-Z.

39.   Several music executives said that Ms. Rhone would benefit from being out from the shadow of a powerful boss, be it Morris or Fuchs.

40.   Several music industry executives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that there were no obvious successors to Gassner.