61.   Last May, the company also began buying regionally dominant traditional accounting and consulting firms around the U.S. to expand into that financial services realm.

62.   Last month, Claude tapped West Palm Beach consulting firm Patriot Games to lead his money-raising effort.

63.   Lay also recommended to Gov. Perry that a retired partner in the Anderson consulting firm be named to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.

64.   Kieran Taylor, with the New Jersey consulting firm TeleChoice Inc., said Westell and Amati had been selling two slightly different versions of ADSL.

65.   Last year, Novell acquired Cambridge Technology Partners, a local computer services consulting firm.

66.   Late this month, she will become a partner in the public-affairs consulting firm of Jamieson and Gutierrez.

67.   Little, the former agency head, who now runs a human resources consulting firm in Michigan, denied knowing anything about a claims scheme.

68.   Lloyd Peterson of College Coach, who works for College Coach, a Newton, Mass.-based college-admissions consulting firm, says extracurricular activities are important.

69.   Many of the wealthiest companies lease suites for several different sports for year-round schmoozing, said Brad Woolsey, president of Parallax Marketing Research, a Marin consulting firm.

70.   McCall left five years later, eventually becoming a partner in the Sawyer-Miller Group, a political and corporate communications consulting firm in New York.