71.   Elizabeth Mackay, chief investment strategist at Bear, Stearns, said investors could consider multinational companies with limited exposure to Asia such as American Express and Hewlett-Packard.

72.   Dutch stocks rose as a stronger dollar and recoveries by most Southeast Asian equities markets boosted multinational companies such as Philips Electronics NV.

73.   Exporters and multinational companies fare poorly when the dollar weakens, as they garner fewer guilders when converting dollar-based sales.

74.   Fewer trade barriers would allow multinational companies to use Russia, where labor is cheap, as a production base for exporting to Europe.

75.   Finally, the South Africans worry that the trade bill could sharply increase the power of multinational companies at the expense of the fledgling African economies.

76.   Fluent in Portuguese, her college degree in hand, Karol Phelps hoped to reap big bucks working for a multinational company.

77.   Fleming said Unisource is trying to catch up with its two main rivals, which are targeting the growing international telecommunications requirements of multinational companies.

78.   Focusing first on serving multinational companies, Taipei has concentrated in recent years on developing smaller, indigenous companies.

79.   Forty-three percent of human resources executives at multinational companies said they expected the staff needs of their Asian offices to increase over the next five years.

80.   For the most part, huge multinational companies like Exxon Mobil have largely left the oil patch to concentrate on larger, more lucrative fields overseas.