11.   Several companies court this energetic crowd by offering challenging, nonstop action.

12.   Sneaker companies court the athletes with sweetheart deals.

13.   The company has been courting him since the eighth grade.

14.   The company is courting the Olympics, and the dot-com venture capitalists.

15.   The defeated Coburn-Shadegg bill would have required patients to exhaust all administrative appeals before taking a managed health care company to court.

16.   The company is courting clients with the claim they can cut costs by wringing out the inefficiencies that traditionally plague the paper industry.

17.   The decision sparked outrage in Belgium and labor unions took the company to court for failing to warn them before deciding to close the profitable factory.

18.   The laws of supply and demand are certainly at work when a chief executive at one company is actively courted by another company.

19.   When the company unsuccessfully courted a British outfit called Great Southern, it turned into a hostile takeover that took five months to conclude.

20.   Within weeks, casino companies were courting Illinois cities like Joliet, Aurora, Alton and East St. Louis.