91.  Initially, Hoechst will spin off its specialty chemicals division into an independent company, called German Newco, which it will then absorb, Clariant said.

92.  Intuit has continued to develop new products and to form new alliances with financial institutions, he said, and was confident of its future as an independent company.

93.  Independent companies are also beginning to provide computer help over the telephone.

94.  Initially, it was proposed that Penn would be spun off as an independent company owned by existing Western Publishing shareholders.

95.  Instead, it said, it may spin off the unit as an independent company or, analysts said, it may sell Yell to a competitor.

96.  It is an independent company that baseball could ignore, and it would have no legal recourse, as a union would have.

97.  It might even cease to exist as an independent company.

98.  --It remains illegal for independent dairy companies in New Zealand to export butter or cheese, or for Canadian farmers to sell wheat abroad.

99.  It was produced jointly by ABC News and an independent company and has been in the works for more than a year.

100.  It was released on his own NPG label and distributed by Bellmark, an independent company.