The discovery and recovery illustrate, Commerce officials say, that their enforcement system works.

Commerce officials seem eager to throw a stack of chips at any company that comes calling for them.

Chamber of Commerce officials said that for the first time they had to turn away more than 100 people.

"The list of participants on these trips just appeared from Brown's office," a senior Commerce official said recently.

"This is designed to make sure that what happened to the industry two years ago doesn't happen again," a senior Commerce official said.

Commerce officials said today that the meeting apparently never happened.

Today Commerce officials said the department was officially out of the venture.

The top Commerce official warned against import limits on textiles.

The guards stiffened as the two Commerce officials rose from their chairs.

Why had the two Commerce officials wanted to meet him?