21.   Q. You also follow furniture companies.

22.   Small furniture companies have closed in all these towns.

23.   Target, which hired the architect Michael Graves to design household products, is now talking with Blu Dot, a young furniture company based in Minneapolis.

24.   The elder Swire owned the Mayfair furniture company here and developed a software program that he later sold to businesses around the country.

25.   The investigation spread to seven other states where the furniture company has stores.

26.   The worst problem, however, was that no furniture company would even consider trying to make this set.

27.   Under the agreement, the Greensboro, North Carolina-based furniture company will develop and market a new line of medium-priced youth furniture.

28.   Warren moved to Los Angeles and set up a furniture fabrication company.

29.   But other signs of impact emerge, with Hungarian furniture company Graboplast Rt. announcing an immediate halt in exports to Russia.

30.   Financial markets in central Europe opened mostly lower Tuesday while a Hungarian furniture company halted imports to Russia in another sign of impact by the Russian economic crisis.