11.  The Aurum acquisition makes Baan the only company able to offer a complete enterprise package.

12.  The company, in Oderberg, was among the few eastern German companies able to compete in the international ship-building business.

13.  The problem for small business is that when these cases first arise, they usually involve big companies able to hire top legal brainpower.

14.  The second is that MGM is one of only a small number of companies able to finance, produce and distribute a large slate of movies.

15.  Those loans have to be paid back by companies barely able to maintain day-to-day operations.

16.  Until recently, supply of the difficult-to-manufacture seeds has been tight, with the companies able to sell as many pellets as they could make.

17.  But days before the ax falls, the situation looks less bleak for companies still able to exploit variations in duty charged in the different EU nations.

18.  But the situation looks less bleak for companies still able to exploit variations in duty charged in the different EU nations.

19.  E.On Chairman Ulrich Hartmann has said the company will ask the government to override the ruling, arguing that Germany needs to foster strong companies able to compete internationally.

20.  Elektra, along with a team of several thousand debt collectors, is among the few local companies able to provide small loans on a wide scale.