21.   Even permanent employees of repertory theaters, dance troupes, orchestras and opera companies perform for a season that lasts only part of the year.

22.   Even so, not all companies performed as well as expected.

23.   For one thing, shareholders usually expect the separated companies to perform better.

24.   Given the tremendous pricing pressure created by the Asian economic crisis, the company has performed about as well as could be expected, he said.

25.   He has aroused shareholder ire by dipping into corporate coffers to support a fancy life style, even when his companies were not performing well.

26.   In addition to the activities at the Can-karjev Dom, there is also an Opera House where a full-time ballet company also performs.

27.   Integrated databases allow companies to perform such functions as maintaining reservations on their Web sites to offering catalog services.

28.   It called that process Hansonization, and investors believed that most companies would perform better after Hanson bought them than they had before.

29.   It is not hard to chart the lineage from Graham, that festival pioneer, to David Grenke, whose new company will perform this season in Durham.

30.   It is that a company performs better when its people see themselves as partners in the business rather than simply as employees.