1.   Comparable players in the biotech market are instrument companies whose equipment is used by pharmaceutical giants, biotech companies, and government sponsored labs around the world.

2.   Lily is flying high as a well-paid representative for a medical instrument company in California.

3.   The Choctaws have ventures all over Mississippi and even in Mexico, ranging from a greeting-card plant to an automotive dashboard instrument company.

4.   The so-called knife is manufactured by the Swedish medical instrument company and distributed by its U.S. subsidiary, Atlanta-based Elekta Instruments.

5.   This fall it will begin giving credit for rotations at private firms, such as biotechnology and medical instrument companies.

6.   The Fender musical instrument company this year issued a line of Ventures-model electric guitars.