21.   The company dismissed the suggestion of accounting impropriety.

22.   The company later dismissed him, but declined to say why.

23.   The bill makes it easy for companies to dismiss workers.

24.   The company dismissed tens of thousands of workers in the years since the end of the Cold War.

25.   The company dismissed the report as incorrect, and analysts familiar with the company had supported it.

26.   The country agreed to make it easier for companies to dismiss workers when it sought a record bailout from the International Monetary Fund last month.

27.   The company dismissed her, and she sued.

28.   The company neither dismissed him nor disappeared into bankruptcy.

29.   The company Friday dismissed the suggestion that it might file for bankruptcy protection, although it did not rule out the possibility.

30.   The IMF is also demanding that company merger and acquisition rules be eased to allow companies to dismiss redundant workers.