51.   Microsoft and AOL have been in on-again, off-again talks since January, when a five-year contract between them ended.

52.   Most crude contracts ended lower under heavy pressure from heating oil, though some of those losses were trimmed in sympathy with gasoline.

53.   Resigned when contract ended.

54.   Swedish Maj. Gen. Nils Carlstrom said he was leaving because his third, six-month contract was ending.

55.   Strikers said it was regrettable that they walked off the job during a time of war, but the contract ended and the union voted overwhelmingly to strike.

56.   The aid workers were taken by an armed gang led by a Somali who formerly rented a vehicle to UNICEF, and was unhappy that his contract had ended.

57.   The contract had ended in May.

58.   The contract with Mobil ended this year.

59.   The five were taken by an armed gang led by a Somali who formerly rented a vehicle to UNICEF and was unhappy his contract had ended.

60.   The five were taken by an armed gang led by a Somali who formerly rented a vehicle to UNICEF, and was unhappy his contract had ended.