The sting, dubbed Operation Boptrot, involved legislators who accepted bribes and other illegal inducements to support horse-racing legislation in Kentucky.

The union also charged yesterday that the teams were offering strike players "illegal financial inducements to cross picket lines, inlcuding bonuses."

Mr. Rost contends that Pharmacia offered doctors illegal inducements to use genotropin, its growth hormone, as an anti-aging drug for adults.

The President said she had been involved in the paying of illegal "inducements" to buy parliamentary or other political support.

When the illegal inducements Mac doled out to recruits are made public, Dixie learns of his resignation in the newspaper.

They offer the athletes illegal inducements to attend their school.

The government said the company's employees had given illegal financial inducements to as many as 400 doctors across the country to persuade them to prescribe the drug, Zoladex.

No charges were filed against Barrett and Aitken, as the statute of limitations for illegal inducement had expired after two years.

The N.C.A.A.'s charges stem from wrongdoing in connection with illegal inducements to Vincent Askew, a Memphis State guard who was contemplating transferring to Kansas.