31.   Lawrence T. Babbio, vice chairman of Bell Atlantic, said Wednesday that he had decided that his company should control the project more directly.

32.   Last year, the American companies controlled about one-third of the Japanese market, according to International Data.

33.   Measuring the absolute percentage of advertising dollars a single company controls in a single market is not the only issue.

34.   Monti has expressed worries that the combined company could control too much of the market for aviation products and could direct far too much business to itself.

35.   Municipal phone companies control the local phone markets in each of the major cities.

36.   NBC argued that in setting up SF Broadcasting, Fox was trying to circumvent FCC rules that limit the number of stations one company can control.

37.   Not long after the Dong contract, the University of California banned contracts allowing drug companies to control whether researchers may release data from studies funded by the companies.

38.   Of the U.S. would allow the French company to better control the distribution of its products at a time when its perfume sales are slumping.

39.   On a second front, the European Commission reportedly is also preparing to block the merger because the combined company would control too much Internet traffic.

40.   Only four companies control the warehouse club business now, but none of them are faring particularly well.