111.   Soon, he concluded, every company would follow suit, and standards would mean little.

112.   So the state created a Railroad Commission, designed to examine whether companies were following the law.

113.   Some predicted that Web companies would follow the example of newspaper publishers, who sell their product for little or nothing and make their profits from advertising sales.

114.   Still, Ichihari said, other insurance companies will probably follow with merger deals.

115.   The companies are following a European trend, which until now was centered on financial service companies.

116.   The company followed the right steps, only to have the city reject the plant six months after construction began, the groups said.

117.   The company has followed other, more adventurous companies into deepwater exploration.

118.   The company is following the lead of rivals Equitable Cos. and Travelers Group Inc., which are reporting rising profits in part because they own investment banking subsidiaries.

119.   The big American companies followed, like Kodak, Hertz, Maxwell House, Bloomberg and others.