61.   But those companies give that software out free to anyone who wants it.

62.   By providing little information about the sweepstakes, the suits add, the companies give customers scant knowledge of how slim the chance of winning really is.

63.   By voluntarily setting up such programs, the companies give the government less incentive to mandate them.

64.   Car-rental and credit-card companies already give privileges to customers with good records and the willingness to share confidential information.

65.   Catalog companies are increasingly giving customers the option to place orders over the Internet.

66.   Chisick said the company gives customers oral and written disclosures as required by law.

67.   Companies can give it to them.

68.   Companies have also given Wall Street a number of secondary stock offerings, like those for J.I. Case and H.J. Heinz.

69.   Court papers said that the company gave free samples, each worth hundreds of dollars, knowing the doctors would then bill Medicare for them.

70.   Companies already give help desk employees fingertip access to electronic manuals.