31.   The company also depends on the highways itself to transport its petroleum and chemical products, Shields said.

32.   The company depends on robust demand for computers, he said.

33.   The company depends on the Denver-based Geneva Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Ciba-Geigy, for its Ergoset production.

34.   The confluence of consumer electronics and personal computers also means that many formerly self-reliant Japanese companies now depend on American companies for key software or chips.

35.   The Hathaway company has depended on the labor, and the loyalty, of the women of central Maine ever since.

36.   These companies depend on Asian markets to keep up sales momentum and were downgraded by Wall Street analysts early today.

37.   This year, the company will depend more than ever on sales in the first seven months of the year, Sidel said.

38.   To do it, companies depend on statistics.

39.   To fill the chronic demand for drivers, delivery companies depend on job fairs, employee references and Web sites.

40.   Unions might also make a new argument, that they represent not just employees but the service on which the company depends.