111.  In an extremely unusual arrangement, a prominent investment banker is entering into a joint venture with a publishing company.

112.  In a sense, there is no news in the news announced Monday that Bertelsmann AG will purchase Random House, the pre-eminent American publishing company.

113.  In January, CIR merged two publishing companies it owns, newspapers La Repubblica SpA and magazine Editoriale Espresso SpA.

114.  In an era when publishing companies are rapidly being bought up by conglomerates, Fine was, for much of his career, an independent publisher.

115.  In these days of conglomerate congestion, when a publishing company is dwarfed by its corporate owner, that no longer seems true at all.

116.  In the days long before commercial publishing companies and research organizations, the society undertook scholarly and scientific investigations.

117.  Inso was a growing software company stuck in a mature publishing company.

118.  In the United States, its properties include the Henry Holt imprint, the scientific-book publishing company W.H. Freeman and Scientific American magazine.

119.  Indeed, he was his boss at the publishing company, where the future leader of the Liberal Democratic Party worked for seven years as a legal adviser.

120.  It also counts National Australia Bank, publishing company Singapore Press Holdings and industrial and electronic equipment maker Siebe Plc among its top five holdings.