1.   And the company also serves as a gold-plated yardstick by which to measure the inadequacy of nearly every other public and private player.

2.   And through reciprocal agreements with other paging companies, the company also serves Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa., Chicago, and Charleston, W.Va.

3.   Before the Giuliani administration announced its intention to push Medicaid recipients into managed care, companies serving those patients said they were growing at a steady, manageable pace.

4.   A GTE spokesman, Don Neely, denied that his company served rural communities like Manning poorly.

5.   Both companies also serve hotels.

6.   Both companies also serve many government agencies.

7.   Bush and his top aides repeatedly attributed high prices to regulatory and environmental barriers that they said made it difficult for energy companies to serve the market properly.

8.   Caan plays a mysterious businessman whose landscaping company serves as a smokescreen for more sinister goings-on.

9.   Comcast, the cable company serving the substantially richer suburbs only a few miles away, added cable modem service several years ago.

10.   Coupled with Joy Manufacturing, the enlarged company now serves both surface and underground mining customers.