61.   Otherwise, he said, negotiations between the local phone companies and their competitors will be irrevocably harmed, leaving the local companies unable to recover their costs.

62.   Others questioned whether the companies could recover their costs selling database subscriptions.

63.   Pell, who operates a fishing and marine service business on Shinnecock Bay, said he hoped to recover the cost of the property from his title insurance company.

64.   Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell said cities across the country are unlikely to file a joint lawsuit against gun makers to recover the cost of gun violence.

65.   Part of the money it is seeking in its suit is to recover costs related to the EEOC investigation, Astra said.

66.   Other lawmakers, including Republican Tom DeLay of Texas, the powerful House Whip, favor federal legislation that would prevent states from allowing companies to recover stranded costs.

67.   Peters was referring to federal statutes that, he said, allow utilities to recover their costs.

68.   Previously, even women who were hospitalized for the emotional pain caused by extreme sexual harassment could not recover medical costs.

69.   Profit margins are generally too small to let them recover development costs.

70.   President Fidel Ramos signed an order freeing the industry from more than two decades of price controls that often prevented oil companies from recovering higher costs.