71.   And a top Dresdner executive said on Wednesday that scores of others were planning to defect.

72.   An executive said Friday that operations have not yet returned to normal.

73.   An Intertrust executive said the company had taken a conservative approach to protecting its patents.

74.   And although executives said they were confident about the future, they have few strategies for developing new markets or dealing with their competition.

75.   An unidentified Globo executive said the figure was overestimated, the paper said.

76.   And at least one food industry executive says he saw an increase this year in contaminated beef.

77.   And company executives say they would not compete simply on price.

78.   And Cisco executives said the quarter demonstrates their financials are solid.

79.   And even if Bankers Trust wins all of these cases, derivatives executives say that it may find collecting its debt difficult.

80.   And even the day before the announcement, one executive said, it was not clear whether Lee would stay.