11.   Australia has led international protests against the French plan for the tests, barring French companies from competing for government contracts and boycotting French products.

12.   -- Bar credit card companies from assuming for tax purposes that all currently outstanding credit card debt will be paid off in the upcoming tax year.

13.   A final condition was that the European companies were barred from cross-subsidizing the GlobalOne venture with revenues from domestic phone services.

14.   Additionally, Torres said, companies should be barred from canceling policies or raising rates when policy holders make claims.

15.   After a year, insurance companies would be barred from denying coverage to these people, even if they have pre-existing medical problems.

16.   All along, federal law has barred the companies from directly lobbying the Transportation Department official who oversees the process, A. Bradford Mims.

17.   Both Nelson and Butterworth had begun investigations of Prudential and were threatening to bar the company from doing business in the state.

18.   But Kassebaum said her bill clearly bars companies from trying to thwart union activities and that it would not apply once employees have chosen a union.

19.   China closed down the French consulate in Guangzhou, and French companies were barred from clinching contracts.

20.   Clinton issued an executive order barring companies that replace strikers from getting federal contracts.