51.   Some critics believe the Seattle-based company cannot survive without a solid pre-Christmas performance, though similar predictions were made more than a year ago.

52.   Still, even some stern Microsoft critics think the company may survive the process intact.

53.   The company has survived a very tough business climate, says Don Sanders of Sanders Morris Munday in Houston.

54.   The company survived.

55.   The company survives on refit work and is designing a new submarine called the Moray, which the Dutch Navy may or may not buy.

56.   The deal, announced in April, silenced critics of BellSouth who had wondered how the company could survive with just a regional wireless offering.

57.   The kind of growth undertaken by Boston Scientific reflects what Nicholas believes will be required for a company to survive and thrive in health care.

58.   The oil companies have survived by remaining politically neutral and are not inclined to change that.

59.   The new company survived a bad first year in Texas, humbled by miscalculations over the value of workers it left behind in Massachusetts and by other errors.

60.   The Romney campaign does not deny having made cutbacks at the factory, but it says management has done all those things so the company can survive and grow.