11.   Among the doubters of Mondavi and Beringer is Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark Inc., a beverage industry consulting firm based in New York.

12.   Among the scheduled speakers were executives from Merrill Lynch, UBS Warburg and Accenture, a big consulting firm.

13.   An Albany native, Krone now lives in Hollywood and runs a consulting firm.

14.   And a recent study by Wilshire Associates, a Santa Monica, Calif., pension consulting firm, concludes that states ignoring this trend do so at their peril.

15.   An economic slowdown and increasing competition from the Big Five consulting firms could lead to a large shakeout in the industry.

16.   An employment consulting firm already has begun workshops at the hospital to help workers find new jobs, she said.

17.   Analysts said that while all consulting firms face difficult times, PricewaterhouseCoopers seems to be in a particularly awkward place.

18.   An example of this happened when a client firm approached my consulting firm to assist them in the selection of a strategic acquisition.

19.   An executive at a consulting firm that has done work in the field said that the technology for jamming was not hypothetical.

20.   And he picked not only the consulting firms, but also the consultants themselves.