1.   The company writes to the culprits, invoking the copyright laws as it reads them.

2.   The company wrote and apologized for their mistake, but by then Sarah was past caring.

3.   The company has written to several hundred people living near its acrylics production area informing them of the possibility.

4.   And after years of charging lofty rates, long-distance phone companies now write checks to lure customers away from their competitors.

5.   And with almost every major computer company now writing Linux code, that universe is getting bigger by the day.

6.   At least three general managers privately voiced concern whether their insurance companies would write a policy against injury for the Bruins forward.

7.   A movie company recently wrote to residents of Fieldston, a neighborhood of expensive homes, to announce plans to shoot some Halloween scenes.

8.   A report in the Financial Times said the big British and French pay-TV companies have written to Bertelsmann expressing their concern about the sluggish progress on the venture.

9.   After all, well before computers were invented, city lights shone, planes flew, companies wrote orders and newspaper columns got written.

10.   After two years of discharging the oily water without a permit, the company wrote to the federal government and said it had stopped that practice.