"Composers Voices" features this interview, and a follow-up conversation from 1999, in which Mr. Carter expressed regret about potentially exposing Ives.

As to whether or not I had any follow-up conversations that said, were we able to set up this event or not, I don't think I did.

He added that although there were follow-up conversations as recently as February, officials at the corporation had not moved ahead with the project.

Mr. Clinton said those contacts were "incidental and were follow-up conversations which had nothing to do with the substance of the R.T.C. investigations."

But in a follow-up conversation, he said that those were just general discussions arising from articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

"In follow-up conversations with athletic department personnel, I have seen no evidence that the practice has substantially changed nationwide," Laster-Bradley said.

She said she has had some follow-up conversations with the Commerce Committee's staff.

Her press secretary later told me that Bachmann "wasn't comfortable with the line of questions, and that's why there wasn't a follow-up conversation."

Thomas said the Knicks had spoken to three or four candidates and would most likely have follow-up conversations.

"This I knew long before I moved there," he said in a follow-up conversation.