41.  The Dole campaign had started preparing the statement last week.

42.  The White House prepared a statement announcing that negotiations on West Coast salmon fisheries will resume in the next few days, with no preconditions.

43.  They also asked how the statements were prepared, where they were kept and who supplied the information for them.

44.  Those statements support the defense argument that when Symington prepared his statements, he did not expect them to be significant to his lenders.

45.  Though the club prepared the statement after speaking with Coleman, Coleman made it clear it was his idea.

46.  White House officials had known Lieberman was preparing a statement and feared he might deliver it while Clinton was meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin earlier this week.

47.  Yizheng shares were suspended from trading today while the company prepared a statement for posting in Hong Kong newspapers tomorrow, said Shao Jingyang, its corporate secretary.

48.  Yizheng shares were suspended from trading today while the company prepared a statement.

49.  A CompuServe spokeswoman in Munich said a statement was being prepared late Wednesday.

50.  A Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman in Amsterdam said officials were studying the verdict and a European Union statement was being prepared for issuance later Thursday.