1.  Any savings, though, may be offset because employees who previously took no sick days may make full use of their PTO days.

2.  As a concession for Wednesday's talks, union officials said they are now willing to take less residuals than previously requested for ads on smaller cable systems.

3.  Dent signed for less with the 49ers than he previously turned down with Chicago.

4.  Deregulation has played a big role, allowing huge deals in airlines and banking, for instance, that were previously prohibited.

5.  Delegates decided to give trainers more leeway on the previously regulated length of gauze and tape used to bandage a fighter's hands.

6.  Cuomo conceded that he might not be the best person to make the case, having himself lost to a previously unheralded state senator, George Pataki.

7.  Depression previously has been linked to higher mortality in the general population or in patients with other chronic diseases.

8.  Derek Jeter, previously with Albany, will move up to Class AAA Columbus to play shortstop.

9.  Delphi's results previously had been combined with the automaker's North American Operations and not broken out.

10.  Delta had previously handed off some money-losing Pan Am routes to its European partners and dumped the international jets it bought from Pan Am.