11.   An American Express spokeswoman, Gail Wasserman, said the company sends out new cards three to four weeks before a card expires.

12.   And a high-tech delivery service lets companies send electronic documents that are validated, digitally signed, verified and tracked.

13.   And companies can send faxes on their corporate letterhead requesting that their employee purchasing lists be removed from the site.

14.   Another company sent free birdhouses to new customers.

15.   Another company sends a truck, called a drayage, to pick up the load and drop it off at a warehouse just north of the border.

16.   As a result, companies often send non-American representatives.

17.   Bandwidth is the basic electronic pipe down which companies send their Internet traffic.

18.   Blacks in his division seemed to have more difficulty than whites getting the company to send them to outside training seminars, he said.

19.   Both firms said it usually takes a week or two to receive new cards in the mail, but the companies will send them overnight if the customer asks.

20.   A Brazilian company sends virtually all its semiautomatic pistols to foreign markets such as the United States because Brazilian law forbids civilian ownership of such guns.