1.   Local companies have contributed half a million pounds, but the driving force behind the festival is Thamesdown Borough Council.

2.   And although foreign companies cannot contribute directly to U.S. campaigns, their American subsidiaries can.

3.   Assuming the company contributes to the child care center, that means less money will be available for other things.

4.   Big long-distance phone companies contribute most of the money that goes into the program.

5.   But it will work for some candidates and not for others, since despite the partisan imbalance the cigarette companies carefully contributed to powerful legislators of both parties.

6.   But neither company will contribute any drugs already in clinical trials.

7.   Companies are contributing to the growth.

8.   Construction companies also contributed to the decline.

9.   Daniel Vasella, CEO of Novartis Pharma, announced in May that his company would not contribute a nickel toward the planned Biotechnology Center in the Amazon.