21.   Corporate spies also indulge in educated guesswork about how competing companies might act under shifting market circumstances.

22.   Despite such assertions, the companies are acting mostly for defensive reasons.

23.   Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a Los Angeles surgeon who has helped Sulzer design and test products, said he believes the company acted honorably.

24.   Equally worrisome is the fact that even once the companies did act in some foreign markets, they refrained from doing so in the United States.

25.   For Kevin Gore, who runs the jazz marketing department for Columbia Records, smooth jazz is shaping how companies are acting.

26.   Freeman countersued, alleging that the company had acted in bad faith and that the legal costs associated with the suit forced him to close his contracting business.

27.   General American said its contract with IT Corp. specifically said the insurance company was not acting as a fiduciary when it approved and paid claims.

28.   If it concludes that the company acted illegally, it could order a new election.

29.   If the companies act in good faith on just the issues that have already been agreed upon, many workers around the world will be helped.

30.   If your company has acted fairly and with integrity in past dealings with you, there is no reason to think it will act differently now.