81.   The firm uses escorts to accompany visitors to appointments inside the building, and in an emergency its receptionists can press hidden red or yellow panic buttons.

82.   The firm uses public opinion polling and focus groups to research issues.

83.   The Mexican government has been struggling with tough resistance by Mexican truckers to allowing foreign firms to use big trailers for package services.

84.   The new fund, Gabelli said, will offer the same bottoms-up investing approach that the firm has long used in managing its portfolios.

85.   The move comes as securities firms increasingly use stock to keep employees from bolting to rivals.

86.   The problem, says Ozzie, is that many firms were using computer networks either at a primitive level or not at all.

87.   The Seattle biotech firm Immunex used to be in the same fix.

88.   The rest of the order, Tolan said, was placed because Ellner thought the original order would create a profit opportunity the firm could use.

89.   These deals, in which new media firms use established media to make a name for themselves, have a strange evolutionary feel to them.

90.   They said the accounting firm used the proper test -- fair market value, not liquidation value or some other measure.