(Slip Opinion)            Cite as:  531 U. S. ____ (2001)                               1

                                     Per Curiam

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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                                     No. 99­1953
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     DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ET AL., PETITIONERS
                  v. TRI COUNTY INDUSTRIES, INC.
 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
       APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
                                 [January 17, 2001]

   PER CURIAM.
   The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently
granted.