101.   Tobacco companies also appear ready to compromise.

102.   True, the account was created by Congress, not by the investment houses, but some fund companies appear to view it as a burden.

103.   Until then, cable companies appear free to grow to any size, he said.

104.   Varone, whose company appears at the Pillow in early August, knows how to make art of seemingly casual ingredients.

105.   What if another management company appeared to be a better choice than Marriott International to run a future acquisition of Host Marriott?

106.   While Boeing has heard the low-cost message from airlines before, the company appears to be listening now.

107.   With low price-earnings ratios and a bounty of sophisticated products, several small medical-device companies appear to be prime takeover targets.

108.   Your company appears diverse.

109.   Analysts said no other company appears to have developed anything similar yet.

110.   Brian Modoff of Deutsche Bank Alex Brown said the company appears to be positioning itself as a second-half recovery story.