81.   But more companies are starting to trip over the earnings bar than previously.

82.   But since the first Internet companies started revitalizing the district several years ago, it has become a desirable place.

83.   But now comes the time when analysts say the company must start delivering on its promises, before investors lose confidence.

84.   But the company started working on Wednesday to move orders for holiday items to factories in other countries.

85.   But once they are, he said, the company could start spending some of the cash it has been building up.

86.   But their views could change as more phone companies start offering long-distance services nationwide, as Verizon has done in New York and SBC Communications has done in Texas.

87.   But the service never got off the ground, even as new free services like Kazaa and Morpheus arose and the record companies started their own rudimentary commercial services.

88.   But the company has started to set up tailored Web sites for its largest corporate customers, making it easier for them to place and monitor computer purchases.

89.   But when modern transportation and mass production allowed all the corn we need to be grown in the Midwest, seed companies started to consolidate.

90.   But while several big food companies are starting to offer more healthy convenience foods, change is coming slowly.