61.   Come September, many companies will have to close their books for the year.

62.   Companies sell the bonds so they can remove loans from their books and pass them on to investors.

63.   Companies with global operations such as Sony have posted gains in recent months, presenting a tempting target for companies trying to improve their books.

64.   Companies that once were opaque to many investors are now listing their shares in New York and opening up their books.

65.   Companies also carry enormous foreign currency debt on their books.

66.   Cristina Rodriguez Cabral, a Uruguayan poet and social activist, told an attentive audience that writers in her country had to pay the costs of publishing their books.

67.   Crime writers never hurt for titles, but the culinary mystery writers seem to take great glee at the puns used to name their books.

68.   During his address, Gingrich thanked the students who brought their books to the event and announced his plans to autograph them.

69.   Eisenberg and her two daughters, Heidi E. Murkoff and Sandee E. Hathaway, may not be household names, but their books sure are.

70.   ERISA does not set financial standards for self-insured health plans and does not authorize the government to examine their books, the association said.