51.   The Postal Service, strongly backed by companies like Time Warner and Dow Jones, says its plan would make rates more rational and fairer.

52.   Union members built up their force on Saturday before declaring on Sunday that they would hold out until the company backed down on the dismissals.

53.   Within weeks, though, the company backed out.

54.   Packer, whose rival TV companies back the Australian Rugby League, hit back by offering huge contracts to star players.

55.   A source within Bavaria, who asked not to be identified, told Dow Jones Newswires that the company will not back down from clauses allowing job cuts.

56.   Ali said the administration should find new investors with strong financial and technical backgrounds to manage the projects if the current companies backed out.

57.   Britain had given permission for Shell to sink the Brent Spar, but the company backed down last spring in the face of protests led by Greenpeace.

58.   Bush was a small company back then, making towel racks and other bathroom accessories.

59.   But the company has backed off suggestions of possible legal action against the bank, and insists the stock is massively undervalued.

60.   He said in a telephone interview from Atlanta that some large U.S. companies backed out of opportunities in Lebanon because of the travel ban.