21.   And last week, Avis Chairman Joseph Vittoria told employees that the company received an offer from a public company.

22.   Andrew McCormick, spokesman for Pfizer Inc., maker of Viagra, said yesterday that the company has not received any reports of deaths in Massachusetts.

23.   Another relatively recent innovation has been for directors to arrange with insurance companies to receive commissions on funeral-related policies sold to customers.

24.   Another Chinese company received a proposal from Pakistan to work on the Kajaki Dam in Afghanistan but turned it down after consultation with his embassy, Hotak said.

25.   Another possibly portentous finding is that CEOs of Internet companies no longer are receiving premium pay.

26.   Any royalties the company might receive would depend on the structure of any agreement with exchanges.

27.   As a result, several executives said, the company will probably receive some mixture of voting and nonvoting shares.

28.   As for the attorney general, Ms. Reilly said the company had received the subpoena but had not reviewed it.

29.   As evidence, he points to an award his company received in September from Governor Paul Cellucci for outstanding achievement in reducing the use of toxins.

30.   As companies receive a cash infusion, they can expand their payrolls.