41.   Murata said he favors companies such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. that have enough internal cash flow to avoid relying on banks for capital.

42.   Q. Which specific companies do you favor?

43.   Ranking companies by percentage change can also be misleading because it tends to favor smaller companies that need only small real changes to post big percentage changes.

44.   Ram denied favoring the company when the licensing controversy first arose.

45.   Sakabayashi said he favors companies such as Toyota that have boosted the value of their own shares by buying them back.

46.   Research suggests that arbitration tends to favor companies.

47.   Signs of further slowing in the economy prompted investors to favor companies with steadily growing earnings.

48.   Some of his recent rulings favored tobacco companies, and anti-tobacco groups had braced themselves for a ruling against the drug agency.

49.   That suit accused the commerce department of historically favoring American companies in trade cases and being incapable of making an objective decision in the supercomputer dispute.