1.   How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?

2.   Despite its travails, Vitria gets top marks from research outfits such as Gartner and Forrester Research.

3.   Millennium has been under some pressure to transform itself from a research outfit into a company with products and profits.

4.   Our hospitals, medical schools and research outfits are beyond compare.

5.   If you delegate that task to someone else --even to professional research outfits -- you can at best end up with second-hand insights.

6.   Kessel was paid nothing as secretary-treasurer, but runs his own small research outfit, which also promotes quinacrine.