1.   Barker, who works at a sign company and has lived in South River for five months, said Tuesday that he was not a murderer.

2.   Inventories rose less than expected last month, a sign companies will have to step up production if demand rises.

3.   Now he visits sign franchise companies and tries to arrange subcontracts with them.

4.   The advertising was considered so shocking that sign companies and transit agencies decided last month to censor them.

5.   The owner was happy to get the income, but the sign companies could sometimes lease the signs for four or five times as much.

6.   To the big sign companies, with their far-flung and large-scale operations, such spectaculars were sidelines.

7.   Chemicals stored in the basement by a sign company were being investigated as a possible factor, said Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.

8.   Sid Dinsay, a spokesman for the city Office of Emergency Management, said the building had various commercial tenants including a sign company.

9.   Sid Dinsay, a spokesman for the city Office of Emergency Management, said the building housed commercial tenants including a sign company.

10.   The building housed the sign company and other commercial tenants, said Sid Dinsay, a spokesman for the city Office of Emergency Management.