51.   Nicholson said that it was obvious that children do better in foster or adoptive families and that there already was a wealth of research to support this.

52.   Now companies like Southwest Airlines are actually putting that research to work, with impressive paybacks.

53.   Now Goldstein and his colleagues are extending their research to women.

54.   On-line services and the Internet are dramatically changing the way analysts and brokerage houses do their jobs, from research to trading to getting a read on individual investors.

55.   Other companies have contracted out research to small companies that use graduate students and others to pore over dusty records at repositories like the National Archives.

56.   Perhaps, but the consumer electronics industry has committed copious amounts of time, money and research to ensuring that the DVD will be around for a while.

57.   Proponents of grid computing say it can link scientists and companies doing everything from medical research to space exploration.

58.   Research to date suggests that Crow has good reason to be optimistic.

59.   Republic librarian Donna Colletta contributed research to this report.

60.   Research to date, say Davis and other researchers, implicates the shift in the jet stream as the cause.