101.   The company had earlier acknowledged that the Federal Trade Commission was investigating its pricing practices.

102.   The company has acknowledged that its strategy carries some risk.

103.   The company has also acknowledged it is being investigated by the SEC.

104.   The machine Dorosin bought, the company acknowledges, should have been cleaned.

105.   The managed-care companies readily acknowledge their power and the threat that they pose to independent physicians who rely on the fees that they charge patients.

106.   The new plan was long on vision and short on details, which the company acknowledged.

107.   The Westborough company acknowledged Monday it may have trouble finding buyers for its interests in five nuclear reactors, two of which have been closed because of safety problems.

108.   There were other areas where the company acknowledged it had made less progress than it expected.

109.   Those tests, however, were small and done with few controls, the company acknowledges.

110.   Tobacco companies acknowledged that they lost.