1.   The sell-off is aimed at repositioning the company as a publisher principally of business information.

2.   Before speculating on the value of such huge quantities of information it is important to see this as part of larger systems of business information and decision taking.

3.   The Club is the first television channel dedicated to management training and business information and its programmes are transmitted directly into the home or business by the BBC.

4.   Although different government departments, from Commerce to Defense, help facilitate these deals, they are protected as proprietary business information.

5.   As M.A.I.D expands, it is likely to move from being purely a provider of business information to professionals to supplying more general content.

6.   A Commerce Department spokesman declined to discuss the case, saying it involved confidential business information.

7.   All the big search engines, including Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite, have metamorphosed into quasi-online services offering news, sports, entertainment and business information.

8.   But connection to global networks may also expose corporate information to electronic infiltration, tampering and theft of strategic business information by adversaries here and abroad.

9.   But that approach will now be taken within narrower markets for business information.

10.   But they also say they should not have to divulge confidential business information or the procedures they use to decide whether particular services are medically necessary.