11.   The theory is that a huge paint maker should be found liable for a certain percentage of damages based on past share of the lead paint market.

12.   U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton lobbied for Houston-based paint maker NL Industries Inc. before President Bush tapped her for his Cabinet.

13.   Rhode Island and the city of Milwaukee have pending lawsuits against paint makers, claiming the companies knew or should have known about the damaging effects of lead paint.

14.   The paint makers of the country are jubilant.

15.   The paint makers have denied wrongdoing.

16.   The Lefebvre-Foinets were famous paint makers whose Montparnasse store was a regular haunt of famous artists.