51.   Manzi dismissed a rumor that the company may be preparing to sell off the desktop unit.

52.   McClean said her company prepared a half dozen floral arrangements for Cheney, who left the hospital on Friday.

53.   More companies are preparing to sell debt, including Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Mercantile Bancorporation and Long Island Savings Bank FSB.

54.   Moreover, most other software companies are also preparing themselves for the coming era of electronic distribution, meaning that Adobe will hardly have the field to itself.

55.   Nine other Russian companies are preparing to issue ADRs, the Bank of New York executive said.

56.   Now the company is apparently preparing for an even more significant committment to XML.

57.   One other company is preparing a stock offering and another two have already sold shares this year.

58.   Other companies are preparing to tap the market.

59.   Other companies are preparing to enter the market.

60.   Phone companies are preparing for increased competition in local markets by cutting prices and offering packages of services, the paper said.