41.   The five-year arrangement calls for no investment by one company in the other and does not create an independent entity.

42.   The NTSB is an independent entity empowered by Congress to investigate transportation accidents and to make safety recommendations based on their findings.

43.   Their hospitals are becoming independent entities.

44.   They may not be around much longer, at least as independent entities.

45.   They expect Schmidt to work to make Novell succeed as an independent entity rather than cleaning it up for an acquisition.

46.   This is an obvious conflict of interest that completely cancels the notion that the auditor is an independent entity.

47.   This tactic does not work well since vice presidents are not independent entities.

48.   Though the president nominates Fed board members and the Senate confirms the choices, the Fed is an independent entity and is supposed to be above politics.

49.   Though still weak after all the years of persecution and alienation, the Catholic Church remains the only independent entity in Cuba with influence and followers.

50.   What is alarming some other executives is that the Disney studio, formerly an independent entity that supplied programs to every network, is now formally folded into ABC.