101.   About five years ago, a consulting firm delicately suggested that Dallas might find it easier to cultivate ties with Mexico than with Asia or Europe.

102.   According to Christopher Merritt, a principal with Kurt Salmon Associates, a retail consulting firm, the Web is well suited to companies with a charitable bent.

103.   Additional information was gleaned from two other consulting firms and state and federal governments.

104.   According to principal John Macht of the Macht Group, a retail consulting firm based in Boston, Sears has sometimes attempted to do too many things at once.

105.   AFGL International Inc., New York, a consulting firm to the financial services industry, changed its name to Headway Corporate Resources Inc.

106.   Adam Pilarski, an analyst at Avitas, a Virginia airline consulting firm, says some major U.S. carriers are in danger of bankruptcy in the next six months.

107.   After leaving the space agency, he became a vice president for research and development at Fairchild Industries before starting his consulting firm, Malkin Associates Inc.

108.   After all, Kroll is not an investment bank or a consulting firm.

109.   After college, he started a computer consulting firm and later sold software tools he had developed.

110.   After Harvard, Ms. Grunwald went to work in New York for the Sawyer-Miller Group, then a political consulting firm.