31.   Electricity distributors also have to pay back millions of pesos in extra fees paid by clients while the companies fought unsuccessfully to block the rate reduction.

32.   Feuerstein shrewdly pushed to create brand name awareness for Polartec, a strategy that has allowed the company to fight off low-cost imitators.

33.   Financial companies fought, and won, the right in the legislation to allow them to share information about customers with affiliates.

34.   For example, even as the company fights politically to protect its burgeoning Chinese market, Boeing remains aware that China could be a competitor in the long run.

35.   For years, the giant hog companies have fought such a suggestion.

36.   For the moment it appears that the company has even fought the environmentalists to a draw on the most conspicuous issue, the well-being of the whales.

37.   FutureNet Chairman Alan Setlin denied the charges and said his company will fight the PUC to remain in business.

38.   H. Christopher Whittle, the founder and president of Edison Schools, said the company would fight to retain its contract, in court if necessary.

39.   He said he hoped other companies would fight PETA in the courts.

40.   He said that together with his Ranger Scouts, the company had fought the Abu Sayyaf twice since last July.