51.   In an unusual twist, each company claims to be a champion of privacy.

52.   In general, the larger companies have claimed they cannot afford to offer larger discounts because state regulators have set base rates unrealistically low.

53.   In its grant application, the Third Street company claimed it had been granted charitable tax-exempt status.

54.   In both cases the companies claimed that Santa Clara-based Intel infringed on their patents in designing Pentium, Pentium II and the new Pentium Pro chips.

55.   In its court papers, the company claimed all of those payments should be considered sales expenses rather than partly income as the IRS contends.

56.   In the hotly competitive Internet search business, every company claims to have a unique advantage.

57.   Kinetin takes softening and smoothing skin to the proverbial next level, the company claims.

58.   Murakami contends that the company unilaterally reduced the number of ballots because, he said, the company claimed that some ballots were double counted.

59.   Naturally the companies claim lofty goals for these high-tech toys.

60.   Nevertheless, the company can still claim a special friend in the White House.