41.   A unit of the Samsung Group won the contract to oversee the project.

42.   A White House that once sought headlines for promoting U.S. exports is these days often shying away from conspicuous displays of U.S. diplomatic power to win contracts abroad.

43.   According to Capt. David Harrington, a police spokesman, Mrs. Mandela used official pressure and kickbacks to win government contracts for a company, Professional Builders.

44.   After hiring a couple of engineers to design a phone, he won a contract with Amway, which had decided to put phones in its catalog.

45.   After winning the contract, Great Lakes carried out the work with two barges towed by a tug.

46.   Aicent will have to win contracts with those companies if it wants to send data to all the phones at the Olympics.

47.   All these changes were supposed to give West Coast an edge over National Medical in winning hospital contracts and attracting patients.

48.   BT won the contract in competition with the Australian telephone company Telstra and other foreign bidders in a move that forecast a shift in government procurement policy.

49.   Brown was in Spain on Monday, trying to help American companies win contracts there, and could not be reached for comment.

50.   Brown, meanwhile, played the salesmen, arranging personal meetings with foreign ministers at which he and US business leaders tried to win sales contracts.