41.   Companies claim the huge pay raises are not excessive and bring REIT executive salaries in line with management of companies of comparable size in other industries.

42.   Companies claim they are doing this to combat increased fraud.

43.   Each company claims it as its own, so it is unclear whether the statement that no component supplied by Toshiba was in short supply includes the Emotion Engine.

44.   Each company claims its browser is substantially better.

45.   Few companies can claim to have invented two killer apps, but Lotus Development Corp. has managed it.

46.   Few companies claim to have even the haziest idea what the new standards might eventually mean for their particular operations.

47.   Furthermore, Fessel says his company never claims to tally Internet use from everywhere.

48.   Hughes said the companies claimed that they had done more to advance the technology than Armstrong had.

49.   Humphrey said the industry is still seeking to block disclosure of tens of thousands of other documents that the companies claim are protected by the attorney-client privilege.

50.   In a twist, each company is claiming to be not a champion of law enforcement but a champion of privacy.