31.   Some companies even let shoppers pick out the wrapping paper via computer.

32.   Some companies let employees stay with the old plan.

33.   Some companies let you download automatic installation programs from the Web.

34.   Software companies often let computer owners use the test versions of new software to get a response from them.

35.   Soon, the company let Windstrup train and supervise a newly established in-house cleaning crew that washed and waxed floors.

36.   Sometimes companies let their bureaucracies kill too many unconventional ideas.

37.   That kind of monitoring can be completely legal, as long as the company lets people know that it is listening in.

38.   The company also is letting users record and send voice e-mail messages.

39.   The company also lets parents take short videos, which are loaded onto a Web page.

40.   The company has let its network deteriorate in parts of New York, where corroded wires lead to scratchy lines and service outages.