1.   Tire companies therefore compensated for larger losses on tires sold to car makers by raising their Margins on retail sales.

2.   All this has helped to halt the advance of new tire companies.

3.   Also participating in the event were tire company magnate Morry Taylor and magazine publisher Malcolm Steve Forbes Jr.

4.   And Goodyear finally has a tire company that matches his name.

5.   Both tire companies at Indy rely on sales to mainstream consumers, a mutual deterrent to building fast but failure-prone racing tires.

6.   A company called Sleep America, which sells mattresses, is joining with the tire company to provide Ruby with a soft spot to lie down.

7.   Adjustment data is information compiled by tire companies to document how many tires were returned to retailers by unsatisfied customers, and why refunds or exchanges were granted.

8.   But Bridgestone, which owns Firestone, the American tire company, did not need Goodyear to make tires for it in the United States.

9.   But Michelin and other tire companies are not content to rest on their laurels.

10.   But the Bridgestone-Firestone Corp., the biggest of the four struck tire companies, has begun to recruit people to work during the strike.