1.   Record companies feared the album might cause offence to people on religious grounds.

2.   The chamber also said companies fear retribution from regulators they tattle on.

3.   Swedish companies fear that the EU will close them out of trade agreements.

4.   The cable companies fear huge competition from the system and the hundreds of new uses for the domestic television sets that are being developed.

5.   American companies fear such an outbreak of rationality and are mounting a campaign to block it.

6.   And now U.S. companies fear that Russian producers are striking back.

7.   And some biotechnology companies fear that if genetically engineered foods are driven out of the market, opponents might next turn to medical biotechnology.

8.   And so last year the company charged into a chaotic country where most Western companies have long feared to tread.

9.   Because music is so easily compressed and sold online, the record companies feared that their intellectual property would be stolen by the bucketful.

10.   But even these companies fear a decline in Mexican demand for their products.