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His company found out about their star researcher's breakthrough only after Nichia sales executives were contacted by researchers from large Japanese companies who wished to purchase the blue-light-emitting diodes that Dr. Nakamura had been specifically ordered not to explore.

On Tuesday afternoon, as firefighters and rescue vehicles streamed toward the village of Gonesse and the burning shards of the Concorde airliner, the photographers of agencies like Corbis-Sygma, Gamma/FHM and Sipa Press were jumping onto motorcycles and rushing to the scene, while agency executives were contacting photo editors around the world, making deals.

Executive decision-makers were contacted for interviews that were conducted face-to-face or by telephone.

Executives at CNN said that they were contacted late last week by counterparts at Al Jazeera, who said they had been reached by telephone by a man who said he was a representative of Al Qaeda.

After consent of the chief executive officer/public health director, the Human Resources offices were contacted to obtain data on potential participants, including names, e-mail addresses and worksites.

All chief executives of the hospitals involved in the audit were contacted and approval sought prior to the audit.

"We were contacted, based on our ability to structure the project," said Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation.

Charles Salmans, a spokesman for Quick & Reilly, which was an independent brokerage company before being acquired by the Fleet Financial Group, declined to comment on whether Quick & Reilly executives had been contacted by the S.E.C.

One of the 10 largest shareholders in Trinity Mirror, speaking on condition of anonymity, said last night that company executives had been contacted yesterday morning and told that the photograph scandal was being taken "extremely seriously" by investors.

But CNBC reported late Thursday that though managers at one of the New York-based funds, Elliott Management, are open to the talks, executives have not been contacted by the Fernandez government.

Haim Saban, an Israeli-American media billionaire who is bidding for all of Hollinger's papers with the German publisher Axel Springer, also inquired separately about The Post, according to a former Post executive who had been contacted by a lieutenant of Mr. Saban.