11.   But Monty argues that transmitting voice and data is just the start of what a modern telecommunications company can and should offer its customers.

12.   But most companies cannot or will not increase support staff.

13.   But the company could if it wanted to.

14.   Competition will allow well-run companies to produce earnings growth rates that were undreamed of when regulators decided how much profit a company could earn.

15.   Clinton proposed that the self-employed and others without employer-sponsored insurance could deduct their premium costs, just as large companies now can.

16.   Finding out when an order will be delivered or whether a company can ship in time for a holiday or event requires an e-mail or phone call.

17.   For a few hundred dollars a month the companies can use the address and the telephone services and a couple of hours of conference room time.

18.   Frost, for one, said he was unsure whether the company could or should write down the debt.

19.   Higgins, meanwhile, is trying to figure out how companies can contrib ute to the Esperanza Foundation so that more homes can be built in Nogales.

20.   How, they argued, could the company not have known of the many returns?