41.   Seventeen wholly owned companies, from search engine AltaVista to Web site builder CMGISolutions, will be merged into five.

42.   She is among only a small number of women who have risen to the highest levels in the executive suites of large publicly owned companies.

43.   Still, he accepts the judgment of critics who say that his glowing resume masked faults that left him incapable of running a publicly owned company.

44.   That prospect has fueled fear in the ranks of the privately owned company, which has a longstanding reputation for job security and an unusually comfortable corporate culture.

45.   The combination of the two privately owned companies had been long expected in industry circles.

46.   The biggest single move would be spinning off its big chip-manufacturing business into a separate publicly owned company.

47.   The bill would establish the National Disaster Insurance Corp., a privately owned company that would provide disaster insurance to homeowners.

48.   The company will face competition from two privately owned companies for the Tijuana-Tecate concession.

49.   The court found that assets had been diverted from a jointly owned family company to ones controlled by Mike and his children.

50.   The Citigroup merger is even expected to force mutually owned insurance companies to offer stock to the public.