1.   An executive with Pasadena-based Idealab, which runs the JavaScript ad for its search engine GoTo, declined to comment for this article.

2.   Analysts are skittish about commenting for the record on the succession effort because the matter is so touchy with GEC management.

3.   Anmuth, who declined to comment for this article, appears to have been drawn into the business around that time.

4.   Ballow declined to comment for this story.

5.   BAe declined to comment for this article.

6.   Because of that, Kurtz, the current Bishop, would not comment for this story.

7.   Bell Atlantic declined to comment for this article.

8.   Bennett, who refused to comment for this story, was not so sure.

9.   Beyond that they declined to comment for this article.

10.   Biomatrix and Genzyme declined to comment for this article, citing their pending merger.