11.   For both companies, the move is a direct challenge to other big makers of wireless handsets like Motorola, Nokia of Finland and Ericsson of Sweden.

12.   Hennessy, Courvoisier and other big makers also promote their drinks through bars and restaurants.

13.   Hoechst, like other big German chemical makers, has reorganized to concentrate on its most important businesses, while shifting its focus abroad.

14.   House had been chief executive of Bay Networks Inc., a big maker of data communications gear.

15.   If they won, such judgments could yield hundreds of millions of dollars each for big PC makers using Windows.

16.   In fact, most big PC makers are thriving.

17.   Indeed, as the dust settles after a year of frenzied buying and record profits, the future of big PC makers is suddenly looking a lot less rosy.

18.   It faces a tough competitor in Sun Microsystems Inc., the big Silicon Valley maker of high-end computers and software.

19.   Micron and Texas Instruments Inc., the other big U.S. DRAM maker, also are feeling the pinch from the continuing crisis in Asia, particularly South Korea.

20.   Nortel, like many other big makers of traditional phone gear, is moving fast to expand into offering advanced data communications equipment.