1.  The case likely would be heard next fall, with a Supreme Court opinion not expected before the following spring or summer.

2.  EEOC lawyers now give priority to class-action suits, disputes involving companywide discrimination and cases likely to develop key legal principles.

3.  One of the few cases likely to result in money changing hands was filed against Ferdinand Marcos, the former leader of the Philippines.

4.  The Andersen case posed some challenges for prosecutors that an Enron case likely would not.

5.  The editors were told the case likely would be resolved by August.

6.  The governor is expected to be cross-examined into next week, with the case likely to go the jury in the first week of August.

7.  The more likely case is that your manager is feeling insecure and may sense you are going to leap over him.

8.  To make the list, a fugitive usually must be considered particularly dangerous in a case likely to attract enough publicity to generate leads and an arrest.

9.  While Fishelson says he is cutting his margins, that does not seem the likely case with other purveyors of anthrax-related products and services.