1.   Asbestos litigation, meanwhile, depressed the earnings of a host of home-building and construction companies, including Armstrong World Industries and Owens Corning.

2.   A higher level of reserves would help Wachovia deal with a portfolio that includes loans to several troubled or bankrupt companies confronting asbestos litigation.

3.   ABB has struggled lately because of asbestos litigation, insurance write-offs and restructuring charges.

4.   Breyer did recuse himself from asbestos litigation but, curiously, not from other major pollution disputes.

5.   But Armstrong World Industries, USG, Owens Illinois, Federal Mogul and several other companies involved in asbestos litigation lost more than half of their market value.

6.   Garrard said he is the first to admit that asbestos litigation is distasteful.

7.   He discovered instead that asbestos litigation was the defining factor in how the company viewed itself.

8.   Her daughter, a corporate lawyer who specialized in asbestos litigation, joined her mother after having a baby.

9.   His adversary, Phillips, had pushed hard for the consolidation, which was done in the asbestos litigation.

10.   In interviews, Campbell and Hiner said they had made no attempt to get other companies named in the asbestos litigation to join their investigation, or their suit.