51.   An announcement was expected before the markets opened on Monday in Germany, the executives said.

52.   And a senior executive said more deals are in the works and could be finalized before the end of the year.

53.   An announcement of the transaction could come as early as Wednesday, the executives said.

54.   An announcement of the transaction, which is being billed as a merger of equals, is expected Wednesday, the executives said.

55.   An Apple executive said the wireless networking products would be available in several weeks.

56.   And although industry executives said Komag was having some luck in pursuing both companies as customers, internationally it faces three competitors in Japan and a fourth in Taiwan.

57.   Among the reasons these experiments have not worked, this executive said, were the confusion and resentment that all the schedule changes have caused among viewers.

58.   An eUniverse executive said that the company had been cooperating with the FBI in an effort to catch the extortionist.

59.   An Enron executive said the committee had been invited this week to come to its Houston headquarters and its Portland offices to search for documents it wants.

60.   An executive at Universal said Island Mercury would try to set up its own urban music subdivision next year.