101.   Cynthia Danaher, vice president and general manager of the medical products group, said that being part of a much larger company had become a hindrance.

102.   Designers who have signed contracts with companies like LVMH have either given up their own labels or sold a stake in the business to the larger company.

103.   Details of some larger companies appear in the adjoining listing.

104.   Dow Chemical, a far larger company than Dow Corning, did not make silicone or breast implants and insisted it had no liability.

105.   Drury will retain his post in the larger company, as will USA Waste President Rodney Proto and Chief Financial Officer Earl DeFrates.

106.   Each move gave birth to a larger company with a heightened appetite for swallowing ever-larger businesses.

107.   Eric Bosshard, an analyst at Midwest Research of Cleveland, said it was inevitable that Genovese would be swallowed up by a larger company.

108.   Even college graduates have serious trouble finding jobs, experts say, since the larger companies are mostly Chinese-owned and tend to hire Chinese.

109.   Even for larger companies, the bill would raise the standards of proof for a consumer to be eligible to recoup damages.

110.   Executives from smaller corporations who do not band together in coordinated political action are, at best, free-riding on the backs of the larger companies.