71.   Those cuts indirectly affected long-term rates, making home-loan refinancings more attractive and potentially reducing the stream of income that servicing companies earn from existing mortgages.

72.   Tolia said the company also earned money by licensing its service to other e-commerce sites like Lycos, which included the Epinions service in the new Lycoshop.

73.   Total business in the municipal bond market has shrunk so much in the past two years that bond rating companies are earning a lot less in fees.

74.   Top executives of the leading health-care companies often earn millions of dollars annually -- in some cases, tens of millions.

75.   Traditionally, state regulators have allowed phone companies to earn only a certain amount on their investments in plant, equipment and technology.

76.   Under the Clean Air Act and the Energy Policy Act, large companies can earn pollution credits by doing better than emissions requirements.

77.   Utilities and energy companies applauded, particularly because the power plant cleanup would allow trading of credits earned by companies that find ways to go beyond requirements.

78.   Under a U.S. government program, companies can earn such credits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions lower than required by law.

79.   With the dollar at two-year highs against the yen, every dollar a Japanese company earns is worth more yen.

80.   You need to understand how the company earns its money and how your job fits in.