71.   But Steve Hightower, president of a small construction management company in Middletown, Ohio, disagreed.

72.   But they hoped for more from the management company.

73.   But Valerie Frederickson, president of a Menlo Park career management consulting company, thinks that there is still a need.

74.   Carret is a director of the Boston-based asset management company.

75.   Carret also remains a director of the Boston-based asset management company, the Pioneer Group.

76.   Charter operators contend that management companies for fractional owners have prospered under looser regulations.

77.   Chuck Rottersmann, who runs a music management company with his wife, Dawn, said he had been to only one of the clubs, Roxy.

78.   Citibank, which runs its own pension fund management company with Grupo Financiero Serfin SA, is the front-runner to acquire Abaco, sources close to the transaction said.

79.   Companies whose shares rose include Greenwich-based Fine Host Corp, a contract food service management company.

80.   Concentra says it will continue to operate as an independent health-care management company under its current name and management.