81.   Toshiba spokesman Kenichi Sugiyama also denied the Nikkei report, saying the company was studying various plans to fix its ailing computer chips business.

82.   He said the company was studying the situation and examining its options and stressed that no decision had been made at this point.

83.   But a spokesman for Shimizu refused to confirm the report, saying the company was still studying the case.

84.   The state arms company is studying South Korean proposals that Russia build a new line of armoured personnel carriers and warplanes.

85.   The two companies are also studying establishing another hot dip galvanished sheet plant joint venture elsewhere in the United States.

86.   The two companies would study ways of making a vehicle based on a new concept, Opel said.

87.   Mitsui Mining spokesman Kazuhiro Kajiya said the company was still studying the ruling.

88.   The company is studying a restructuring plan and it is persistently rumoured that the privatised airline British Airways might become a shareholder.

89.   The company was studying ways of being profitable if the dollar remained, as was likely, at about five francs and if the French defence budget were reduced.