11.   He stopped recommending Global Crossing to clients in early October, after the company missed a key revenue target.

12.   I think the card companies are missing a good bet.

13.   If the company misses earnings, even once, the punishment is sure to be severe and long lasting.

14.   IBM rose after a Salomon Smith Barney analyst said speculation that the computer company would miss its sales or profit forecasts was off the mark.

15.   In that year, the company repeatedly missed self-imposed deadlines set for a debt agreement.

16.   Investors often pummel a stock price when a company misses its expected earnings by just a few pennies a share.

17.   Meanwhile, the company was also missing deadlines for finishing the highways.

18.   Once the company missed its payments, the trip downhill became faster and bumpier.

19.   Other such companies have also missed debt payments lately, prompting many Western banks to freeze corporate lending there.

20.   Redstone also said the company is missing a deadline today to submit a joint proposal with Seagram Co. over dissolving their USA Network joint venture.