21.   However, she said the company treats e-mail like other documents for legal purposes, saving anything written by executives that has to do with contracts and lawsuits.

22.   In recent years, companies have treated workers as if a recession were still raging.

23.   In one embarrassing failure, it was forced to retreat after it proposed requiring companies to treat the stock options they awarded employees as an expense.

24.   Japanese companies treat their small shareholders shabbily, and the annual meetings are just one example.

25.   Mexico allows companies to treat foreign exchange losses on outstanding debt as an asset if the debt is related to an ongoing investment project.

26.   One reason that IBM Research is so effective is that the company treats its labs like businesses.

27.   Secondly, if countries do something like that, oil companies treat them like outcasts when it comes time to make decisions on where to invest.

28.   Sprague, of Hulett Environmental Services, said his company has treated five north county homes for Formosans.

29.   That conflict creates a loophole that has allowed companies to treat stock options as essentially free money during the recent dot-com bubble.

30.   That consumer packaged goods companies should treat the launch of new products as a separate phase of product development.