Several senior executives have commented on the survey and related trends in substance abuse.

As a result, the executives would comment only on the condition that they not be identified.

Many executives would not comment on the issue of violence, citing the lawsuit against them.

The executives would not comment in detail yesterday about the dissolution.

Total executives in Paris would not comment on Middle East operations.

"It is just like the days when rice was rationed," a bitter-sounding executive commented in the newspaper.

Top executives at Merrill would not comment on the Shearson acquisition.

A spokeswoman for Macy's said that its executives, as a matter of policy, did not comment on other stores' business.

A spokeswoman for New Century said the executives and the company would not comment beyond the company's filing.

The executives would not comment on the price that Yahoo will pay.