51.   Smart companies base their brand recognition on customer relations as much as on the actual product.

52.   So far, six companies based in the U.S., Asia, and Europe and eight of their executives have been charged in the price-fixing investigation.

53.   Skechers U.S.A. Inc., a footwear and apparel company based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., to DDB Needham Los Angeles, a unit of the Omnicom Group.

54.   Some large Swiss companies base their business on currencies other than the franc.

55.   Some companies base their fees on the number of calls or letters they generate.

56.   Some travel companies based in the United States can arrange complete custom itineraries in Tunisia.

57.   Sun began as a workstation company based at Stanford.

58.   Take International Nesmont, he says, a mining company based in Ladner, British Columbia, that used Mediacomm to produce its CNBC ads.

59.   That strategy worked well earlier this year for Steve Mihaylo, chief executive of Inter-Tel, a digital communications company based in Phoenix.

60.   That is the question for Response USA, a small home security company based in Lawrenceville, N.J., and traded on the Nasdaq small-capitalization market.