1.   The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club.

2.   And the company has also missed dividend payments on preferred shares.

3.   Because exchange controls have limited its access to dollars, the company has missed interest payments.

4.   Both companies missed per-share expectations by a penny.

5.   But analysts also insist that many companies are missing a great opportunity to shore up their business by failing to develop products and market them properly.

6.   But Jeremy Rifkin, a longtime critic of biotechnology and Monsanto, said the company was missing the point.

7.   But if they do not respond, companies may miss an opportunity to win back customers, he added.

8.   But the company may have missed the point about interactive marketing.

9.   Fiorina has been under attack because the company has missed sales targets in the past year.

10.   Giuliani said many firefighters and police who first responded to the scene were killed, while one Fire Department official said that entire engine companies were missing.