11.   Meanwhile, The New England immediately acquired the stronger financial ratings of its new parent firm as a Met subsidiary.

12.   More business prospects are calling, including an Internet company whose parent firm is in Greece.

13.   Southern Co. also is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric, all of which are undertaking similar programs.

14.   The idea is to create sink-or-swim incentives for employees and generate a public valuation for the majority holdings of the parent firm.

15.   The FDA proposed guidelines that would subject the drug-company subsidiaries to the same disclosure rules that govern the parent firms for prescription drug information.

16.   The materials were assembled into electronic devices by Asian workers and transferred back to the parent firm in the United States.

17.   The RCA Dome in Indianapolis is so named even though the parent firm said that it was shutting down its plants in Indiana.

18.   The two approached their parent firms in April.

19.   Those shares will be converted into stock of the parent firm, Walt Disney.

20.   Parent firm Bombardier Inc. is a leading maker of business jets, regional aircraft, rail transportation equipment and motorized recreational products.