11.   A company based in San Francisco, Frameline, releases and markets only gay and lesbian titles.

12.   A spokesman said only that Anthony and Suman serve a telecommunications company based in the United States.

13.   A. We own Expeditors International, a freight-hauling and logistics company based in Washington State that benefits from a lot of traffic to and from California.

14.   ACN Energy Inc. is a newly formed energy marketing subsidiary of American Communications Network, a telecommunications company based in Troy, Mich.

15.   After the polls close, all of the proxy cards will be handed over to IVS Associates, the independent election services company based in Delaware.

16.   Broadcast companies base their advertising rates on the influential ratings system.

17.   But that debate took a back seat after the blast that destroyed the Jerusalem branch of Sbarro, a company based in Melville, N.Y.

18.   But Tuesday, after a demonstration of a fuel-cell generator developed by Avista Labs, a company based in Washington State, Cheney left the line out.

19.   Caserta spent much of his leave negotiating a settlement of his five-year contract with Spectrum, a wireless communications company based in Manhasset N.Y.

20.   Cindy Hoffman of Media Mentors, a communications training company based in Philadelphia, suggests sending out detailed reports or charts to meeting participants before the conference begins.