41.   Drug companies insist that the government must not establish a list of approved drugs for Medicare beneficiaries or a uniform national price list.

42.   Even when one is clearly stronger than the other, companies insist that theirs is a merger of equals.

43.   For instance, the insurance companies have been insisting that mothers and infants be put out of the hospital after one day.

44.   For years, cable companies have insisted that they needed a regulatory shield to protect them from the multi-billion-dollar phone companies.

45.   Former homeowners refused to discuss the details of their agreements with ANP, citing confidentiality clauses the company insisted upon.

46.   He explains that it is because health insurance companies insist on hefty discounts.

47.   Having lost money in the early interactive-television fiasco, the company initially insisted that the PC would always be the preferred Internet terminal.

48.   He said that even if the couple skipped three nights in Luxor, the company still insisted on flying them through Luxor.

49.   High-tech companies insist that more visas for foreign workers will allow them to fill vacancies as well as cherry-pick talent from foreign countries.

50.   However, the company has insisted that its stent is better than others.