41.   Faced with unforgiving investors, companies feel obliged to accompany every announcement of bad news with plans to cut jobs.

42.   For months, many technology companies have been feeling the pressures of stiff pricing competition, a glut of components and a worldwide slowdown in personal computer sales.

43.   Foreign financial companies are also feeling Russian pain.

44.   Fund companies also are feeling the ill-effects of the Asian crisis.

45.   Genentech spokeswoman Kathleen Rinehart says the company felt that because of the entry criteria, all women eligible for the lottery would be in roughly equal need.

46.   He is a product of the system, as is Kobe Bryant and any other rookie who companies feel can sell their goods.

47.   However, the company may feel that there is room to improve profit- ability, he said.

48.   If they take the steam out of the property market rally, most Hong Kong companies will feel the pinch.

49.   If the system succeeds in pulling customers away from other gas stations, Bombardiere said, other companies will feel pressured to set up a similar system.

50.   In fact, some companies feel particularly positive about applicants who openly discuss a failure, a mistake or a termination.