21.   The move will also allow the company to secure funds to pay employees some sort of severance package when the layoffs come, analysts say.

22.   The other two companies would agree to quote prices designed to ensure that the nominated company secured the work, the commission said.

23.   Three weeks later, the company secured a name change and was recommended again by Dorsey for the contract.

24.   Ardai said the company has not secured any deals yet to sell its supercomputing services, but he envisions signing up biotechnology companies as customers.

25.   British competition authorities argued that the Belgian company had secured an unfairly dominant position in the British beer market and ordered it to dispose of Bass.

26.   It said the Eastern Province-based company has secured a license and will be offered for public ownership next year.

27.   Last month, Piltel was granted a comprehensive guarantee by the US Export and Import Bank to enable the company to secure loans from foreign banks more easily.

28.   SPT chief executive John Gurrieri said the export contract was the largest the company had secured and was testimony to the growing confidence in Australian manufactured products.

29.   The company has also secured varied contracts throughout Australia and Southeast Asia in the last month.

30.   The company already has secured government approval to offer long-distance in its New York and Massachusetts local calling regions.