31.   For their part, the companies have often accepted money-losing screening contracts in hopes of winning more lucrative airport work, such as baggage handling.

32.   Hatch said that the companies would accept such legislation and that their agreement would avoid constitutional problems from legislated restrictions on tobacco advertising.

33.   He has also announced that the company would not accept tax breaks from the city in exchange for a promise to stay in Manhattan.

34.   How many companies can accept that failure rate?

35.   If a strong domestic network is so important to AirTouch, some may wonder why the company accepted an offer from Vodafone, rather than Bell Atlantic.

36.   In Hong Kong, anti-tobacco legislation enacted in June was toughened to include some of the same restrictions on advertising that tobacco companies accepted in the proposed American settlement.

37.   In that case, both sides dropped their legal action after the company accepted all eight dissident members to its board.

38.   Kirwin of Country Inns said women would not stay at places with exterior corridors and his company therefore no longer accepted them.

39.   Last month, Bloomberg News reported the company had accepted preliminary bids from several potential buyers, according to people familiar with the transaction.

40.   Last year, the company accepted some restriction on those licenses in a settlement with the United States Department of Justice.