51.   Daiwa reportedly has scrapped plans to open a branch in Cleveland, Ohio, next year.

52.   Cox Enterprises is scrapping plans for a national network of local city sites on the Web, and is making deep cuts in its online staff.

53.   Detroit scrapped its plan only one week into the season, benching quarterback Charlie Batch for the veteran Ty Detmer, obtained in a trade from, guess who?

54.   During his reign, the company scrapped plans for an initial public offering and labored to find a buyer or strategic partner.

55.   For Intergraph, casting its lot with Intel would mean abandoning its own chip technology and scrapping plans to use Sun Microsystems as an alternate chip supplier.

56.   For now, the original plans have been scrapped in favor of a soccer career.

57.   Ford Motor Co. has scrapped plans for an automobile superstore after encountering problems pulling dealers together for a new complex in suburban Burbank, officials said.

58.   GM scrapped earlier plans to build Opel cars here because they could not be built inexpensively enough.

59.   Hahn Dong Moon, a spokesman for the South Korean chip manufacturer, said the plan was scrapped because the global market for semiconductors continues to slump.

60.   He has also scrapped several plans to upgrade large public housing projects of an earlier era.