101.   Marubeni Corp. and other big Japanese trading companies have led the charge to do business in Burma.

102.   Many trading companies had expected prices to fall this month, allowing them to pick up gas on the spot market.

103.   Lui says the payments came for helping a related trading company purchase Japan cigarettes.

104.   Mikom is also thought to have been behind the first such suit last fall, filed by two small trading companies.

105.   Mitsubishi, the Japanese general trading company at the center of the dispute, is trying to remain above the fray.

106.   Moreover, a suddenly docile market for energy prices was working against trading companies such as Aquila because volatility means profits.

107.   Motorola of Schaumberg, Illinois has linked up with trading company Marubeni Corp. to offer personal computer communications services via a locally owned cable television operator.

108.   Nearly all the big ones have taken stakes in online trading companies, including an array of virtual stock-trading forums known as electronic communications networks.

109.   Moreover, Harrison had high hopes for a proposed merger between Enron and Dynegy, a rival trading company, and bought even more shares on that prospect.

110.   Most trading companies have yet to announce group results.