41.   Executives also made two early choices that they believe kept their Internet operation from becoming costly and difficult to manage.

42.   For their part, one official said, the executives made a case against unilateral American sanctions to punish other nations for violations of human rights.

43.   For weeks, retail executives have been making grand predictions about the imminent holiday.

44.   Ford executives made it clear that they believe fuel cells have the potential to make it to the market faster than other alternatives.

45.   German law also makes it difficult for shareholders to claim damages, even if executives made demonstrably misleading or false statements.

46.   How do executives make get the right opportunities?

47.   If corporate executives can make their numbers honestly, they have less incentive to resort to accounting tricks or bogus restructuring charges to keep things humming.

48.   In February, executives at CNN.com made a change to their weather home page that at the time, they said, seemed innocent enough.

49.   In constrast, the filings even for exchange-listed companies rarely go beyond what a few top executives make.

50.   Informix said the audit found that some sales executives made informal commitments to help distributors sell products and fund buyers.