1.  Broadcast companies long have argued that if they have to pay for airwaves, consumers will suffer.

2.  Even a superior product is not enough to carry a company very long these days.

3.  Although the fund company long invested only in United States stocks, it has branched out recently.

4.  At a company long known as strong on stockpicking and thin on management, the new emphasis is on the latter.

5.  Experts say that nowadays only one worker out of nine stays with a single company that long.

6.  Have they been with the company long?

7.  Lexmark International Inc., the IBM spinoff company long associated with quality laser printers, also makes inkjet printers for the home market.

8.  Other companies long involved in the industry, like Household International, are broadening their reach.

9.  The changes at Westinghouse and Alcoa fall within a long tradition of real estate moves accompanying corporate shifts by blue-chip companies long identified with Pittsburgh.