21.   As traditionally dominant local and long-distance phone companies struggle to adapt to industry deregulation, competitors such as Nextlink are trying to grab a piece of the action.

22.   At the time, the company was struggling to digest a flurry of acquisitions engineered by Snyder.

23.   Both companies are struggling.

24.   Both companies have struggled as the global financial turmoil saps their revenues, and the price of both their stocks have suffered.

25.   A spinoff may be more likely, however, especially as the company struggles to strengthen its beleaguered Burger King division.

26.   A year and a half after it filed for bankruptcy protection, the company is still struggling to right its business.

27.   Advertising dried up, and his company was struggling to pay interest on its debt.

28.   After a year when money-losing biotech companies struggled to line up cash, Icos Corp. faced shareholders supremely unworried.

29.   After watching other new biopharmaceutical companies struggle for years to make their own discoveries, win patents and begin clinical trials, Todaro is taking an alternate route.

30.   All seven regional Bell companies have struggled to rein in costs as their once-protected markets have opened to new competition from long-distance carriers and cable television companies.