21.   But the big international phone companies have formed alliances with each other to spin powerful new communications webs for customers.

22.   By October, the company had formed a special board committee to cut costs and hired investment bankers to sift through acquisition offers from a number of discreet suitors.

23.   Celluci said Internet companies are forming every day and creating new jobs.

24.   Companies are forming alliances to share the cost of developing and deploying digital networks and consumer equipment to receive digital TV signals, called decoders.

25.   Companies formed or led by ex-Lotus managers since IBM buyout.

26.   Costa Crociere stock had rallied amid speculation the company will form an alliance or be acquired by a competitor such as Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

27.   Dale Penn, former vice president of marketing for Cartel, said TurboCoverage was an attractive suitor because of the relationships the company had previously formed in the industry.

28.   Earlier this year, the company formed a venture called Iris with Generale des Eaux, a large French industrial company.

29.   Earlier this year, the company formed Capstar Broadcasting Partners to buy radio stations.

30.   Formed last year in New York, WERISE is an organization, collective, and production company formed to support the creative efforts of women artists.