51.   As recently as last year, the company got negative attention when it was associated with an attempt to manipulate best-seller lists.

52.   As companies get bigger, markets become global and technology changes ever more rapidly, billions in profits can turn on a single decision by the senior manager.

53.   As companies get leaner and better informed, they are much quicker to take action.

54.   As companies got leaner, they made their lower-level executives share secretaries.

55.   As evidence of the potential for bullying, Disney points to its own problems with Time Warner last spring, when the two companies got into a contract dispute.

56.   As some gray hairs can recall, that was how the company got its start, when international telephone calls dazzled investors.

57.   As the pound strengthens against other currencies British exports become less competitive and U.K. companies get fewer pounds for their overseas revenue.

58.   As the yen strengthens, Japanese companies get less competitive and their profit outlook weakens.

59.   As part of such agreements, the commission generally requires the company to get advance approval of future marketing deals that might raise antitrust concerns.

60.   At some point, a company gets so large, its marginal costs start rising instead of falling.