71.   E.ON is selling businesses unrelated to energy to fund purchases in faster-growing markets such as Spain and the United States.

72.   Equitable said in December, after efforts to sell the business outright had failed, that it would close to new business and seek a buyer.

73.   Elsewhere in Europe, GrandMet wants to sell businesses including caterer Hofmann-Menu and cake maker Goldstein of Germany.

74.   Employees have nervously questioned the fate of the division since Motorola said nine months ago that it was considering selling the business.

75.   Families may have no choice but to sell a business to pay the resulting tax bill, making it impossible to preserve the enterprise for the next generation.

76.   Filipino entrepreneur Pedro Flores brought the yo-yo craze with him to the United States, where he ultimately sold his business to Duncan, a toy manufacturer.

77.   Finally, Monday, it was time to cash in and sell the business to a new generation technology leader.

78.   Ford has been selling other businesses to concentrate on autos and light- and medium-duty trucks and overseas expansion.

79.   Former Seminar employees said Josephson, who did not return several phone calls, was looking to sell the business.

80.   Four years before, he sold his business, the Abe Schrader Corp., to Interco Inc.