51.   Both Astra and Merck said the new venture would have no immediate effect on their financial results.

52.   Both the Air Force and city agree to share any profits new ventures earn on the base, possibly to be known as Brooks Technology and Business Park.

53.   Branson says the new venture is unlikely to achieve a full circumnavigation on the first attempt, but he feels the risk is worth taking.

54.   -- In Russia and China, Adtranz has new ventures with local firms to make track signals.

55.   A First Chicago executive, Chris Skaar, will be chief executive of the new venture.

56.   A new venture, Folio Fine Art, sold the manuscript pages, as well as watercolors, original prints, early maps and, later, antiquities.

57.   A name for the new venture will be announced shortly.

58.   A radio program about this novelty reported that Sautet and some colleagues often met on Sunday mornings at the Cafe des Phares to discuss their new venture.

59.   A new on-line venture called NBC Supernet is to be distributed by the Microsoft Network.

60.   A third offered an opportunity to invest alongside the original backers of Microsoft and Intel in a new venture that would sell software to operate Web sites.