91.   Rising sales at telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Alsthom SA and retailer Carrefour SA powered the gains in French stocks.

92.   Schneider, an electrical engineering and equipment company, is another French company that depends on its U.S. sales for a significant chunk of revenue.

93.   Several equipment companies claim he never paid for medical supplies.

94.   Shares of electrical equipment companies lost.

95.   Shares of computer chip companies gained amid expectations that semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials Inc. would exceed earnings estimates in its fiscal fourth-quarter.

96.   Shares of computer, oil and automobile companies lost the most, while beverage, drug and electrical equipment companies rose.

97.   Shares of oil, telephone, electrical equipment and communications equipment companies paced the decline.

98.   Shares of Scientific-Atlanta, a communications equipment company, fell after rival General Instrument Co. reported a third-quarter loss.

99.   She said the organization has turned down requests from farm equipment companies for mailing addresses of farmers on the database.

100.   Semiconductor equipment companies also fell amid concern that falling prices for memory chips will delay building new chip plants, which require the latest equipment.