31.   The FCC responded in August by reconfiguring the auction to permit the big companies to participate.

32.   The shares rose in the following few months on expectations the company would participate in a boom in power-plant construction in developing nations including China.

33.   The two leaders also signed agreements that would allow Russian companies to participate in the destruction of booster rockets that were once tipped with Soviet nuclear warheads.

34.   The two companies participated in an independent review of the failure, and reported to the Chinese on what went wrong.

35.   There, two dozen companies are participating in a pilot program to sell power to a small number of businesses and homeowners.

36.   They also required the companies to participate in talks aimed at creating a regional operations system.

37.   Tishman Speyer will handle day-to-day management and leasing for the venture, but both companies will participate in investment decisions.

38.   Workers at most major companies did not participate.

39.   A spokesman for Aventis Pasteur said it was uncertain if his company would even participate.

40.   Abang Abu Bakar said the Yemeni Government had also planned to privatise some of its nationalised industries and was hoping some Malaysian companies would participate.