1.   Arguments were made that films might be more pro-Japanese than an American-owned company would favor and that the film library was falling into foreign hands.

2.   As long as they were under the gun, polluting companies favored a new, less cumbersome system of pollution control.

3.   Despite laws promoting equal opportunity for women in China, companies openly favor men over women for certain types of work.

4.   G. Kennedy Thompson, president and chief executive of the new company, said both companies favored keeping the Wachovia name.

5.   It is correct that the drug companies favor an approach that would have private insurers, and not the federal government, providing drug coverage.

6.   Japanese electronics companies once favored Malaysia.

7.   More than the usual promotional baseball cap and logo-emblazoned jacket that liquor and tobacco companies favor, the line is being designed by Jeffrey Banks.

8.   Mulally said the company still favors the sonic cruiser, but he admitted that the airlines may not think so.

9.   Other companies generally favor open competition but object to specific language in the bill.

10.   Pooling accounting, which companies favor because it does not require them to put good will on the balance sheet, has other problems.