61.   And broader market indexes here did not drop as much, reflecting gains by smaller companies from newly ascendant industries such as security, video conferencing and home entertainment.

62.   And it restricts the company from retaliating against competitors.

63.   And it has begun phasing out another restrictive regulation, a quota system for new issues of Class A shares that effectively froze out private companies from the market.

64.   And the package exempted all but the three biggest long-distance companies from joint-marketing bans.

65.   And on a bulletin board, companies from as far away as Iceland advertised hundreds of jobs in construction and farm work.

66.   And the merger could distract both companies from solving their problems.

67.   And unlike a traditional venture-capital firm, Avalon usually creates companies from scratch, rather than financing would-be entrepreneurs.

68.   And the power that came with fashionability shielded the company from awkward questions about its accounts.

69.   And the spills have handed opponents of corporate farming a handy weapon in their battle to stop large companies from completely dominating the U.S. hog business.

70.   And there is a movement afoot in Congress to whip up new sanctions against companies from any nation that do business in Iran.