71.   And although foreign companies cannot contribute directly to U.S. campaigns, their American subsidiaries can.

72.   An Israeli citrus company has become the third target of the Helms-Burton Act, the federal law that punishes foreign companies that do business with Cuba.

73.   Analysts said a number of companies in Thailand and Indonesia were hoping to extract themselves from financial trouble by selling out to a foreign company.

74.   And foreign companies with successful operations in Japan have no desire to see cutthroat competition.

75.   And foreign companies quietly paid the necessary bribes and put the necessary Suharto children in charge of projects and monopolies.

76.   And Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. says it, too, may boost the amount of its pension funds invested by foreign companies.

77.   And Beijing may end longstanding tax breaks for foreign companies that were intended to encourage investment.

78.   And counter-parties, such as foreign companies, will owe taxes if they are found to have taken part in such deals.

79.   And if that happened, some day the United States might be forced to turn to foreign companies for the spy pictures it wants.

80.   And in recent months China has made major concessions, agreeing, for example, to give direct trading rights to foreign companies.