91.   A string of alliances and acquisitions have been announced as companies look to deal with the weak margins by expanding market share and cutting costs by getting bigger.

92.   A. If a company is looking for a way to spend money in order to aggravate the employees, pay inequity is the way to go.

93.   A spokeswoman at Yangzi said the two companies are looking at ways to combine their business.

94.   A string of other refining and marketing alliances have been announced in the last year as companies look to improve profits by expanding market share and cutting costs.

95.   A thousand miners have gone back to work in Pennsylvania this year, and companies are looking to hire more, Yankovich said.

96.   A tiny company may look brilliant on its home page, but in person you may discover it is run by dolts or scoundrels.

97.   A. This sounds right only if the company is looking for the right way to get itself into some real trouble.

98.   After all, the company looked for six years before buying a stake in Framlington Group, a London-based international manager.

99.   After it was abruptly dropped as a merger partner by SmithKline on Friday, analysts were confident that the company would look for another deal.

100.   After several years of slow economic growth in Japan, companies here are looking to emulate some of the more dynamic American and European companies.