51.   Neither the Yankees nor New York Mets offered Jordan a contract during meetings this week.

52.   Officials with the Diamondbacks are in Cooperstown, N.Y., for league meetings this week.

53.   Phil Rizzuto, still resigned to resigning, called Michael Eigner, general manager of WPIX-TV, to set up a meeting this week.

54.   Powell said the defection did not arise asa topic in his meeting this week with Deputy Prime Minister Qian Qichen, who is visiting Washington.

55.   Representatives of Motorola Inc., Intel Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. also attended the meeting this week.

56.   Research presented at the ACC meeting this week also supports the use of a new drug called nPA made by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

57.   Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., R-Okla., got a taste of the Bush treatment in an Oval Office meeting this week.

58.   Shaath said Arafat tried at meetings this week to control Hamas and other radical groups by appealing to Palestinian unity.

59.   She was introduced to the whole team at a surprise meeting this week.

60.   Sherman, who has a full schedule of school and community meetings this week, also argued that he can often work more effectively at home.