11.   Performing the honours are Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans and Alabama governor Guy Hunt, accompanied by other company executives and guests.

12.   Also Thursday, shareholders overwhelmingly voted down a proposal that would have made future stock option grants for company executives performance-based.

13.   Although company executives will not disclose key financial information, clearly all the operational changes have not come cheaply.

14.   Although Starwave, a privately held company, would not disclose financial data on its operations, company executives concede that Mr. Showbiz is still operating in the red.

15.   Although records show that Rahman agreed to help the company obtain financing, company executives said he was never authorized to retain Ms. Weaver and Yene.

16.   America Online, company executives say, has begun a transition in its business.

17.   An insider is the name given to a company executive or board member.

18.   And company executives dismissed suggestions by analysts that they were trying to shove particular cars into the market even if prices and profits suffered.

19.   And company executives, still fabulously wealthy, have set a modest example.

20.   Analysts are looking for reassurances from company executives that growth in orders is still strong and that new programs are on schedule.