51.   Companies know that.

52.   Companies know that by limiting themselves to one main selling mechanism, they sacrifice a lot of potential customers and leave a lot of money lying on the table.

53.   Companies can know the answers to those questions only if they can predict their future cash flows with a reasonable degree of confidence.

54.   Company spokeswoman Sheryl Ross said his change in status had absolutely nothing to do with the investigation, which the company has known about since December.

55.   Consalvo said the company did not know specifically what the federal investigators were looking at except that the inquiry appeared to involve products made in Puerto Rico.

56.   Companies have always known that it can cost three or four times as much to acquire a new customer as to make a repeat sale to an existing one.

57.   Companies know that they need to assign their best managers to the highest-profile funds and to give those managers enough resources to keep the fund strong.

58.   Companies know the type of cuts that really count.

59.   Company spokeswoman Sheryl Ross said his change in status has absolutely nothing to do with the investigation, which the company has known about since December.

60.   Did his company know?