11.   A dozen companies are racing to get protease inhibitors on to the market.

12.   After the Palm V hit the market, the company raced to make a proper-sized stylus, but lost out on three months of business.

13.   All the genome companies are racing for the patent office.

14.   But other companies are racing to build new digital networks, in order to bring interactive TV and the like into the home.

15.   But several start-up companies are racing to fill the gap.

16.   Cable and telephone companies are racing to build powerful networks to the home that will offer a cornucopia of communications and entertainment capabilities.

17.   Companies are racing to map the same structures and find commercial value in designing the drugs that can work with those proteins.

18.   Costs and losses are mounting as the company races to complete its network.

19.   Companies are racing to build high-capacity satellite networks to accommodate spiraling demand for communications services.

20.   Drug companies are racing to exploit the opportunity to develop selective Nsaids which would have a potent analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect without harming the stomach and kidneys.