61.   For now, consumer spending is keeping US economy robust, as companies build new homes, make products, and hire employees to feed consumer demand.

62.   For them the battle has shifted from the dot-com battlefront to the storefront, as Web and catalog companies build stores to compete with the mall-based brands.

63.   For years, cable companies built systems anywhere they could, often resulting in inefficient systems.

64.   Forte Software sells development tools that let companies build complex applications for high-end client-server environments.

65.   FPL says there is nothing in Florida law that allows a company to build a plant whose primary purpose is to make spare energy as a wholesale business venture.

66.   Genuity grew out of BBN, the legendary Cambridge, Mass. research and development company that helped build ARPAnet, the forerunner of the Internet.

67.   Giving away software and information has become a popular way for Internet companies to build market share.

68.   Gregoire said the company deliberately built excess capacity.

69.   He also worked for Playboy when the company was building its clubs and hotels before concentrating on the health care industry.

70.   He said electric power companies will build oil-fueled or gas-fueled plants instead of nuclear power plants to replace thermoelectric plants.