61.   Other Bay Area firms will use the Java show to cast their lot with Sun.

62.   Other Wall Street firms are using similar techniques.

63.   Private equity investment firms such as Beacon use their own capital and money raised from outside investors to buy controlling or minority stakes in corporations.

64.   Securities firms use mortgage passthroughs as raw material in these new issues, effectively retiring them from the market and buoying demand for the issues still outstanding.

65.   Some foreign firms are already using Chinese companies to invest in cinemas.

66.   Sure, he said, thinking his fledgling firm could use the business.

67.   The Cambridge firm uses a water soluble polymer-based adjuvant, called Adjumer, that it licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University.

68.   The commission will look at the range of methods used by firms to calculate fair-value prices and consider whether they should be made more uniform.

69.   The firm also will use sulfuric acid to leach copper from ore upstream from Roosevelt Lake, a major source of drinking water for the Valley.

70.   The firm has been using the Small Business Suite for several months.