81.   Banks disdain many Blue Cross companies as too risky too get loans at low rates, Douglas Sherlock, a Philadelphia-based managed care analyst, said.

82.   Belle executives have said that they will maintain the company as a property developer and operator of casinos.

83.   BellSouth officials refused to comment, relying on a formal statement issued by the Bell companies as a group.

84.   Berry identifies nine drivers of sustainable success in service business from his extensive research into such companies as Charles Schwab, Midwest Express Airlines and The Container Store.

85.   Besides Paramount, he represented such major companies as General Electric and MCA, the Music Corporation of America, in antitrust cases brought by the federal government.

86.   Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, also treated the coffers of his publicly traded company as his own private bank and casino.

87.   Benson remains with the company as chairman.

88.   Besides the logo, the identity program also involves renaming the company as the Travelers Group, to emphasize its multiple services.

89.   Boeing is probably pleased to have the company as a subcontractor, and Lockheed Martin might face regulatory hurdles to doing yet another big acquisition.

90.   Both Affymetrix and Hyseq have also lined up prominent drug and diagnostic companies as collaborators.