101.  He added LG will be the first South Korean company to assemble electronic appliances in the North.

102.  GTE is also the first wireless company to offer hands-free dialing by voice recognition, which it says will make using a car phone safer.

103.  Gucci is not the first company to own part or all of Saint Laurent.

104.  HDNA wants to be the first American company to deliver high-definition programming to customers.

105.  He added that Cendant was not the first company to restate earnings, and that such problems were difficult if not impossible to spot from his position.

106.  He is the incredibly talented engineer who now gets a pound of flesh from the financiers who wrested control of his first company away from him.

107.  He left Playtex to become the chief executive of his first company, the Benrus Corp., a maker of expensive watches.

108.  He can manage it because his profitable market research firm was, he says, the first Romanian company to go public.

109.  He wants to make Telmex one of the first foreign companies to test the new American telecommunications laws.

110.  He said his grandfather started the first Haitian shipping company.