21.   The official said his company assumed there would be more attacks.

22.   The plan was stalled by haggling over the percentage of risk taxpayers and companies should assume.

23.   The tobacco companies assumed that they had to work hardest to appease the White House, a potentially fierce antagonist.

24.   Under the new competitive system, power-generating companies will assume all the risk as well as the potential reward.

25.   Under the Republican plan, such companies would also assume financial risk, like insurance companies, if they wanted to do business directly with Medicare.

26.   While companies would assume responsibility for renovating and maintaining the new parks, the city would retain title to the land parcels.

27.   With privatization in vogue, all the major companies involved already assume that their employees are liable and pay for insurance based on that premise, an analyst said.

28.   He could not say how many ships were affected, but added that shipping companies assume delays due to flooding, ice or other hindrances.

29.   The new company will assume the total debt, the article said.

30.   But while large companies can assume responsibility for employing Bahrainis, small and medium firms are complaining.