51.   Her customers include large companies such as Intel Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd.

52.   His backers included insurance companies like Allstate and large pension funds.

53.   His investments, which he would prefer never to sell, include well-known companies like American Express Co. and Coca-Cola Co.

54.   Hustler has been shunned by mainstream advertisers, including tobacco companies that find no problem with Playboy and Penthouse.

55.   Idealab has a portfolio that includes companies like eToys, whose business model looked much more compelling last year.

56.   Ideal candidates, analysts say, include those companies with plenty of spare cash, no significant capital spending plans and healthy balance sheets.

57.   In addition to BMW, clients include well-known companies such as Microsoft, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, John Deere, Gulf Stream and Siemens.

58.   In the long term, Henderson said he thinks the cable television companies will be better able to compete than their competitors, which include phone companies.

59.   Ironically, the book was first underwritten twenty years ago by the Mineral Information Institute, a group that includes mining companies.

60.   Indeed, the list of Evercore clients also includes companies as varied as Schlumberger, the French nuclear power company Framatome, General Mills, Kmart and Motorola.