41.   Canada dropped its plan to meet with an international sports arbitrator later Friday.

42.   China is dropping plans to impose a fee on foreign financial information vendors, relying on other means to regulate their business.

43.   Clinton yielded to Republican demands and dropped plans to issue an executive order that Republicans said would have excluded non-unionized firms from winning federal construction contracts.

44.   Conoco dropped the plan after the White House announced that Clinton would issue a directive blocking all such transactions on grounds of national security.

45.   Crude oil fell after Norwegian oil workers accepted contract offers, dropping plans for a strike that threatened to disrupt production.

46.   Delta Air Lines, after failing to reach an agreement with its pilots, dropped plans to link its routes with United Airlines.

47.   Dole joined a coalition of civil rights groups, business associations and lawmakers that persuaded the Reagan administration to drop its plan.

48.   Earlier this year the company dropped plans to buy a California hospital after the state attorney general opposed the transaction.

49.   Federal officials have dropped plans to pursue federal charges against the boys.

50.   First, the Euro Disney theme park almost fell into bankruptcy and then Disney had to drop plans to build a park in Virginia based on U.S. history.