61.   Rather than keeping their employees on until they are a ripe old age, Japanese firms have started pressuring them to retire earlier.

62.   Schering has arranged to market Triquilar with Japanese firm Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical if the drug gains approval, Harenberg said.

63.   Some sales of Canadian bonds by Japanese firms have already been noted, traders and analysts said.

64.   Since then, speculation that the Japanese firm will sell some of the copper it holds in London Metal Exchange warehouses drove prices lower again.

65.   Soon Japanese firms were making comparable disks at lower prices, which prompted Johnson and Pilotte to find a new albeit related business.

66.   Talks are reportedly under way on a major investment by the Japanese firms in the company being created by combining the wireless units of SBC Communications and BellSouth.

67.   Thanks to the secrecy still surrounding government and company archives in Japan, nobody knows for sure how many people Japanese firms enslaved during the war.

68.   The combination of a higher yen cutting export income and falling domestic prices threatened the profits of many Japanese firms.

69.   The company said it will announce other game development partnerships, including some with Japanese firms, later this year and early next year.

70.   The Japanese firm has suffered so much during the past four years that it has turned to its American partner for help.