81.   Comverse Technology, based in Woodbury, New York, makes and markets telecommunications and computer systems, and has a research and development company based in Israel.

82.   Conveniently, both companies are based on Long Island.

83.   Emery is a unit of CNF Inc., a transportation based company in Palo Alto, Calif.

84.   Ericsson has been restructuring and in March said it would close a plant in Sweden, where the company is based.

85.   European directors can make a day trip out of a board meeting by hopping on the Concorde, particularly if the company is based in New York.

86.   Executives at UserLand Software, a seven-person company based in Burlingame, Calif., also see a future in corporate blogging.

87.   Four out of five companies are based in the Twin Cities, and most of the rest are Midwestern.

88.   He auditioned for Monnier out of curiosity and suddenly he found himself packing for Brittany, where her company was based.

89.   He reported the problem by telephone to Centeon, the company based in King of Prussia, Pa., that made the albumin.

90.   He gives a lot of money to to organizations in New York, he said, because his company is based here.