TIMING IS OF THE ESSENCE AS COMPANIES STATE THEIR CASE

          Salt Lake Organizing Committee leaders met with
     officials of Seiko and SMH Swiss Timing last week, both of
     which are "vying" to be the official timer of the 2002
     Olympics, according to Mike Gorrell in the SALT LAKE
     TRIBUNE.  Gorrell writes that SLOC wants the selected
     company to provide $20-30M worth of equipment and services
     as an official licensee, whose name "then would be mentioned
     in TV broadcasts of the Games and whose watches could be
     adorned with SLOC's logo" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 6/29).
          RECYCLED INFO: The ideas of Ontario-based Royal
     Recycling and Xerox about integrating recycling or other
     environmental-protection measures into the Games -- and to
     involve official Games sponsors in the process -- "received
     a warm reception" from the SLOC's environmental advisory
     board.  Xerox Senior Project Engineer Brian DiNatale
     recommended that sponsorships "contain a commitment" for the
     company and SLOC to "cooperate on specific environmental
     features" (Mike Gorrell, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 6/29).