51.   A merged company would operate in an industry where global competition has intensified as countries have lowered access barriers to domestic telecommunication markets.

52.   A separate company will operate Conrail as CSX and Norfolk Southern jointly go through a review process before the federal Surface Transportation Board.

53.   A spokesman for Random House, Stuart Applebaum, said the companies operate at arms length.

54.   A. What makes your proposed trip complicated is that no single company operates passenger boats on all the canals you mention.

55.   Along with MegaMania, the company operates three other electronically linked bingo systems at Indian-run bingo halls throughout the nation.

56.   Brazil has already changed its constitution to allow private companies to operate telephone services and the sale of state-owned telecommunications assets.

57.   Both companies operate as real estate investment trusts, or REITs, and are based in Chicago.

58.   Both companies operate high-pressure pipelines that carry western Canadian natural gas to markets in eastern Canada and the U.S.

59.   Bush first hired Voter Consumer Research during his gubernatorial race, and the company now operates phone banks north of the city.

60.   But online systems operated by companies like PCS can keep track of all the prescriptions filled by a patient at drug stores across the country.