31.  Any player will be able to sign with an independent team and become a free agent.

32.  Deputy Mayor Fran Reiter said the operation might be divided between several sites or even privatized, with cars dispersed to commercial parking lots.

33.  Deputy Police Commissioner Marilyn Mode said discussions with civic leaders in Chinatown began last month.

34.  Deputy Secretary Kenneth W. Dam said at a news conference that with some exceptions, finance, commerce and banking in the United States were all operating smoothly.

35.  Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and other U.S. diplomats will meet with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shamshad Ahmad next Tuesday in London.

36.  Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott has been shuttling to various meetings with South Asian officials.

37.  Deputy Superintendent Gil Kleiman, spokesman for the National Police, said the bus was packed with schoolchildren and people going to work.

38.  Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is warning them to comply with reforms -- such as cutting spending and raising interest rates -- demanded by the International Monetary Fund.

39.  Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that combining a low inflation rate with investment-led economic expansion had played "an important part in our success."

40.  Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. Charlene Barshefsky left Beijing yesterday after two-days of last-ditch talks with Chinese officials.