31.   Horan speculated that Ballantyne might go after its largest international rival, the projector maker Cinemeccanica S.p.A., a privately held Italian company.

32.   If the Italian company has moved on for fall, with its version of the doctor bag, others are trying to keep up.

33.   IMA was the first of a wave of small export-driven Italian companies that have come to the stock market this year.

34.   In addition, five Italian companies are quoted in New York and not Italy.

35.   In Italy, it will be sold by Pfizer and Bracco S.p.A., an Italian pharmaceutical company.

36.   In this case, the equipment was shipped through an Italian company, Effepi, in an attempt to keep U.S. officials from knowing its true destination.

37.   It was an Italian company, however, that jumped into that spotlight first.

38.   It was the largest profit ever reported by an Italian company, beating its own record from the previous year.

39.   Italian companies, too, have inked a growing number of accords with Chinese manufacturers to produce everything from polyester, trucks and washing machines for the Chinese market.

40.   Italian companies are likely to shun foreign bank loans because of a government tax decree that makes borrowing abroad more expensive, bankers said.