61.  As a parade of automakers, pharmaceutical companies and other manufacturers began using the port, Charleston found itself at the crossroads of a new global Southern economy.

62.  Are there unwritten ways that the pharmaceutical companies are influencing the governments?

63.  As more pharmaceutical companies raced to develop genetically improved crops, many European consumers were becoming increasingly concerned about crops with altered DNA.

64.  As part of its extensive restructuring plans, the Frankfurt, Germany-based pharmaceutical company said it would establish a drug development center in Somerville.

65.  As reports of resistance continue to build, pharmaceutical companies are starting to revive their research efforts.

66.  As if from Norman Rockwell painting, Morrisville is a community where a pharmaceutical company is the largest employer.

67.  As yet, no two major French pharmaceutical companies have merged.

68.  AstraZeneca, the British pharmaceutical company, is in the final stage of clinical trials for its drug Iressa, which is being tested in lung-cancer patients.

69.  Astra, a pharmaceutical company and maker of Losac, an ulcer treatment, has yet to file an application with the NYSE, the spokesman said.

70.  Asthma therefore offers an enormous potential bonanza for pharmaceutical companies.