101.   Some hospitals have challenged the health care plans, and larger hospital chains have been able to improve their reimbursements through negotiations.

102.   Some critics counter that the big chains are in trouble because of mismanagement.

103.   Some large restaurant chains are warning customers who order rare meat that they do so at their own risk.

104.   Some chains are more accommodating than others.

105.   Some industry observers speculate that its individual chains are too regional to make online forays worthwhile.

106.   Snow chains are an imperative on either route.

107.   Still, budget and mid-tier chains are also uphappy with their bills.

108.   Still, he said the chain was moving in the right direction.

109.   Talbots Inc., the Hingham, Mass. retailer of classically styled apparel for women, should be a winner, and many department-store chains could be losers.

110.   Still, the men who wore them Wednesday told reporters the chains are uncomfortable and sometimes painful to wear.