1.  Three of the five biggest record companies have agreed to license their music to MusicNet, a new online service.

2.  ...one of the biggest companies in Italy.

3.  American Online Inc., the biggest company offering on-line services for computer users, knows this well.

4.  And being the biggest company in an industry is hardly a panacea, as shown by the well-documented travails of Sears, General Motors and IBM.

5.  Analysts said they expect buyers to snap up the stock because Associates will be the biggest company of its type and has a long reputation for avoiding mistakes.

6.  And the package exempted all but the three biggest long-distance companies from joint-marketing bans.

7.  And the two biggest record companies promise to unveil their Pressplay service by the time winter officially begins this month.

8.  And the biggest companies, as well as the investors who own their stock, may have to scale back their expectations to conform to the new reality.

9.  Another factor that make bigger better is that the biggest companies have more political clout, The Economist points out.

10.  AOL is the biggest company in this business, and CompuServe is the second-biggest, meaning U.S. antitrust officials will give it a close look.