21.   Moreover, pharmaceutical companies increasingly are depending on biotech firms for the next generation of drugs.

22.   Most Japanese petroleum companies depend on purchases of crude oil from the global wholesale market, unlike Euro-American companies which boast their own extraction operations.

23.   Nor did the cash flows on which these companies depended to pay their interest costs.

24.   Small- and medium-sized companies still depend on banks for financing, while large German corporations do not.

25.   Some of the closest monitoring of the situation is being done by people whose companies depend on restaurants.

26.   Such companies depend on commissions for most of their income.

27.   Survival for these service companies depends on volume, said Ottis, whose facilities dry about one-third of the rice in Texas.

28.   Textile shares are a bellwether of tension between Taiwan and China because textile companies depend on China for sales and a labor force.

29.   Textile companies depend on China for sales and employees.

30.   The company also depends on increasing use of broadband technologies like digital subscriber lines and cable modems.