11.   Q. Can companies pick their own ticker symbols?

12.   So the key to successful cause-marketing is for a company to pick causes that make sense for it and where it can actually do some good.

13.   The company picked Westchester and the Bronx for the trial because modern switching equipment there made it easier, officials said.

14.   The company picked a handful of suppliers to supply seating, axle and other part systems, rather than individual components, in an effort to cut costs.

15.   The private companies will pick proteins that are medically useful.

16.   Why the oil companies are picking our pockets this far in advance of their usual summer hi-jinks is obscure and suspicious.

17.   Yoshiharu Deguchi, a construction worker in the small town of Omiya, says he votes for candidates his company picks.

18.   But the same talent that brought them together eventually pulled them apart, as skateboard companies picked them individually to ride for their teams.

19.   The company picks a new image each year for the label of its top selling Esporao red reserve wine.