1.   Sure enough, doctors ditched the other parties thrown by rival medical supply companies.

2.   The transportation of chilled foods from the point of production to the point of sale has posed problems for a great number of catering supply companies.

3.   Also Thursday, the European paper industry got its first Internet supply company.

4.   And longtime contractors and subcontractors should have good credit with local vendors such as a lumber supply company.

5.   Appliance makers and building supplies companies such as Boral Ltd., CSR Ltd. and Email Ltd. are among those whose earnings have been hurt by a home building slump.

6.   As with the wrestling supply company, the designers showed resourcefulness, to say the least, with their other suppliers.

7.   Baxter shareholders will get an as-yet-undetermined number of shares in the supply company.

8.   A refrigeration supply company and a sheet metal store are about the only establishments left that recall the preboom days.

9.   After all, the billion-dollar auto supply company, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., just announced that its first quarter earnings would beat estimates.

10.   After the close of trading, Tyco said it would not complete its planned acquisition of C.R. Bard Inc., a medical supplies company.