1.   Oil companies do monitor conditions but do not make the information public.

2.   One of the features of the plan is a proposal to allow a foreign company to monitor the timber industry.

3.   A new account gives a user access to parts of a computer network, and the creation of accounts is carefully monitored by companies like Microsoft.

4.   Companies monitor their databases and separate buyers into categories.

5.   Companies monitored the Treasury bond market, where yields slipped after government employment figures allayed concern that the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates soon.

6.   Credit-card companies usually monitor disaster situations and mark ZIP codes where homes have been destroyed, but a call from a card holder can help.

7.   Elaine Davis, a spokeswoman for Long Island Lighting Co., said the electric company was monitoring conditions but had not yet mobilized emergency crews.

8.   Finnegan said the company closely monitored its inventories and believed they were not too high.

9.   He also said grid operators need to modify their systems so power companies can monitor customer data more easily.

10.   Its companies monitor the work of psychiatrists and psychologists, often second-guessing their judgment about treatment.