81.   A former chief programmer for Microsoft, Comaford now has her own Chicago-based consulting firm that also helps employees cope with user-interface problems.

82.   A Minnesota environmental consulting firm seeks to expand its services by offering mosquito forecasts, envisioning it will get bites from TV stations and companies that sell insect repellents.

83.   A former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hammer later affiliated with management consulting firm CSC Index to popularize reengineering.

84.   A few years later, Rove followed the elder Bush to Texas, where he eventually started his political consulting firm, specializing in direct mail.

85.   A report from its consulting firm and an independent review by the Water Development Board support his assertion.

86.   A San Anselmo woman named Hazel Wood wanted to establish her consulting firm, Up and Running, on the Internet.

87.   A letter written by Peter Siggins, the chief deputy attorney general, said his office would sue Connell if consulting firms were not paid.

88.   A separate Kopp initiative, a nonprofit consulting firm called the New Teacher Project, is bringing the recruitment and training strategies to states and school districts.

89.   A new study from a nonpartisan political consulting firm ranks New Georgia and South Carolina toward the bottom of states in voter registration.

90.   A retired Navy intelligence operative, he owned a computer consulting firm in Towanda.