Mr. Ivester, who has been in Brussels off and on since Friday, sent a lengthy companywide memo yesterday in which he announced that he would apologize.

The new First Lord proved to be a difficult Cabinet colleague, deluging the Prime Minister with a sea of lengthy memos.

Even in a lengthy memo to his daughters coaching them on how to publicize their father's private side, he manages to make their relationship with him sound wooden.

The agents began preparing a lengthy memo for Attorney General Janet Reno.

But when the defense secretary fired off lengthy memos, dubbed snowflakes, to the council, Mr. Hadley firmly fired snowflakes back.

He remembered other advice Mr. Nixon wrote in numerous lengthy memos.

Mr. Wallach, who faces trial later this year on related charges, wrote lengthy, sermon-like memos to Wedtech executives, for whom he worked as a consultant.

In two lengthy memos written just before Guidant was swamped by controversy, the consultant, Dr. Richard N. Fogoros, also told company executives that their decision to withhold such data, while statistically defensible, was questionable.

Some regulators said the last straw for Mr. Kearney was a lengthy memo he received from John Robson, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

He would go straight to his office and dictate a lengthy memo detailing everything he could remember about this meeting, and his neck would be protected.