11.   Even so, it has such a bad reputation that one investment firm has announced publicly it will stop the practice.

12.   Gone was the euphoria of last year, when the firm announced it was raising a billion-dollar fund.

13.   Gone was the euphoria of last year, when the Wellesley, Mass. firm announced it was raising a billion-dollar fund.

14.   He added that the firms would announce a new name before year-end.

15.   His public-relations firm announced it was a boy.

16.   In May, the firm announced it was expanding its non-U.S. merchant banking business to increase its investments in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

17.   Indeed, the Redwood City firm announced just such a settlement yesterday with independent New York label TVT Records Inc., which agreed to drop charges against Napster.

18.   Instead of chasing the cross-industry mega-mergers, several communications firms announced transactions this month designed to make them more sizable players in their core businesses.

19.   Last month the firm announced that Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. would succeed Schiro.

20.   Last summer, the firm announced that it had settled its litigation with Curry without agreeing to pay him any money.