1.   Companies tend only to look to short term profits.

2.   Companies tend to favour the lawyer who has trained with a good quality City firm.

3.   Television companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.

4.   ITV companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.

5.   Marsh observed that companies tend to retain the services of their financial advisers over extended periods and therefore the underwriting is but one of many such financial services.

6.   The leading high technology companies tended to be American or Japanese, and many European companies were unable to maintain a presence in these markets.

7.   Another difference is that the companies tend to be faster on their feet.

8.   Although large companies have tended to be the more vocal in their support of the euro, some smaller businesses do favor it.

9.   And even more well-established companies have tended to tiptoe onto the Internet.

10.   And small companies tend to have fewer alternative markets for their products if the U.S. economy sours, because they focus more on domestic markets.