21.   How could a company as big, profitable and powerful as Enron slide into oblivion so quickly?

22.   How, they asked, could the company not have known sooner of the returns?

23.   If Lewis had given incorrect responses -- whether by design or mistake -- during that two-year period the companies could have rejected any claims for payment.

24.   If the company cannot or will not pay the rebate, it must explain why in writing to the department, according to the order.

25.   In doing so a company can reduce its exposure to big swings in the dollar.

26.   In her view, the management company could and should have paid because it had provided the place where her daughter was attacked.

27.   It can afford to invest in the sort of long-term projects that smaller companies cannot.

28.   Investors who own junk-rated debt of oil companies, like investors in oil stocks, welcome rising prices because companies can pocket more cash.

29.   Levitt called on the Financial Accounting Standards Board to pass new accounting rules quickly, including one that would clarify when a company can record a liability.

30.   Like Argentina, Venezuelan steel companies could also be affected, as could ceramic companies, said Daniel Lahoud, chief analyst with InvestAnalysis in Caracas.