31.   A survey of all technology research firms, conducted last year by Information Week magazine, placed Giga well into the middle of the pack in all categories.

32.   A San Francisco research firm will analyze its findings when the project ends next September.

33.   A profitable opportunity also exists for independent research firms.

34.   A research firm hired by the campaign has presented him with several thick binders of newspaper clippings on Sheriff Arpaio.

35.   A. Michael Lipper, chairman of Lipper Inc., the Summit, N.J., research firm, thinks social investments have just been lucky.

36.   A year ago, Laszlo Birinyi Jr., who runs his own research firm and serves as global strategist for Deutsche Bank Securities, was wildly optimistic.

37.   A. Michael Lipper, chairman of Lipper Inc., the research firm, said such stocks could be among the most susceptible to a broad market downdraft.

38.   According to a survey released by the Gartner research firm, employees waste nearly an hour a day dealing with work e-mails.

39.   According to Forrester Research, a technology research firm in Cambridge, this online holiday season may turn out to be the slowest on record.

40.   According to Lipper Analytical Services Inc., a research firm that tracks fund performance, there are barely a dozen contrarian funds.