31.   If Amazon really does go under, we may be headed back to the era when only big companies could afford to make big innovations.

32.   If the current deal calls for an inadequate payment, can the tobacco companies afford to pay more?

33.   Individual companies could not afford to rent theaters or sophisticated lighting equipment, but working cooperatively, White figured, they could do so.

34.   Innovation, once the lifeblood of PC makers, becomes a luxury that the companies cannot afford.

35.   Israeli companies cannot afford that sort of uncertainty.

36.   Insurance companies can afford to spend more on claims than they take in from policies in part because it helps them amass billions in premium dollars for investment.

37.   Last year the company introduced Instant Teamroom, a groupware-for-rent service that any company can afford.

38.   Most dance companies cannot afford to pay musicians and perform to taped scores, but Dianne McIntyre will appear with the jazz composer Lester Bowie and his Brass Fantasy.

39.   Mutual fund companies cannot afford to be complacent.

40.   Sally Hopkins, a Consignia spokeswoman, said there were currently no plans to change the name back, in part, because the company cannot afford to.