1.  IT provides the organisational glue for corporate objectives to be maintained within looser federal structures of inter dependent companies.

2.  Analysts agreed that online companies dependent on advertising are not necessarily doomed to fail.

3.  At the same time, they are selling shares of companies dependent on the domestic market for sales.

4.  Atlanta-based Abrams Industries, a construction and real estate development company heavily dependent on the retail industry, bought Servidyne Systems in May.

5.  Bad weather also hurt a company dependent on seasonal merchandise.

6.  A company heavily dependent on the Pentagon could wind up in deep trouble.

7.  Companies dependent on exports in such industries as engineering, chemicals and glass production are having to reorient sales to domestic consumers.

8.  Companies more dependent on domestic demand will be hurt by the falling yen, which will drive up import prices, and by the fiscal tightening, Fujii said.

9.  Declining issues were led by companies dependent on the auto industry.

10.  Doing less well are companies dependent on the domestic market, such as retailers Galeries Lafayette and Monoprix.