1.   At least one company is banking on consumer-driven growth continuing, however.

2.   Besides the tax implications, the company has been banking on those Internet investments to provide its direct-marketing business with information about people surfing the Web.

3.   A Silicon Valley company is banking that they will, particularly if it means they do not have to buy an actual fax machine.

4.   Companies are banking on consumers wanting to cull the best of modern design for homes they will decorate in the new century.

5.   Foreign companies are still banking on growth.

6.   In fact, his small San Francisco-based company is banking on it.

7.   It sounds like a shaky premise, but several companies are banking on it and producing e-mail-only devices.

8.   Many companies are banking land for future use.

9.   Moreover, the company is banking on the idea that a host of users will jump at the chance to add various kinds of muscle to e-mail.

10.   One idea the company was banking on was giving away some storage space and charging for more.