31.   Microsoft was planning to investigate the break-in without help from U.S. authorities, the Journal reported, but the company contacted the FBI on Thursday.

32.   The company contacted the Norwegian Embassy after receiving the threat, and the embassy contacted the police.

33.   The company contacted the U.S. embassy, which called President Leonel Fernandez to complain.

34.   The company is contacting customers with outstanding orders to tell them how to get refunds of their money, which the company has been holding in an escrow account.

35.   The company is contacting plants in Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan to pick up the slack, should production in China become prohibitive, Bobbett said.

36.   The Springdale, Ark.-based company has contacted restaurants and delicatessens that purchased the products in bulk to remove them.

37.   Wanchai said the company has contacted the Medical Sciences Department to test the quality of the water and issue a guarantee that it is absolutely clean.

38.   Hasan said that Nusamba planned to buy shares from other investors and added that the company had already contacted several current Astra shareholders.

39.   He said he did not know how recently the company had contacted the State Department or whether it had been urged by the administration to forego the deal.

40.   Nusamba commissioner Bob Hasan said the company had already contacted several current Astra shareholders about buying their shares.