1.   Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm, Casio, were being checked yesterday for structural damage.

2.   For the last four years, van Beirendonck has been backed by Mustang, the German jeans company.

3.   Further, many of the new generation of jeans companies add diverting little asides to the jeans.

4.   That look has been expertly appropriated by Diesel, a huge jeans company that markets itself with satirical images.

5.   The jeans had been altered to look as if they were made by the San Francisco jeans company.

6.   The major jeans companies insist they are doing just fine.

7.   Yes, more glorious high school angst glazed with the sort of mall-savvy WB precociousness that makes jeans companies pant.