21.  Increasingly, they point out, the big automobile companies are switching output to Mexico.

22.  Indeed, senior people at the automobile company shared those fears.

23.  Investors were buying shares of big companies, including cyclical stocks like automobile companies, that are sensitive to changes in the economy, analysts said.

24.  John Z. DeLorean was acquitted on charges of smuggling cocaine to help his financially strapped automobile company.

25.  Layoffs by apparel and automobile companies have slowed, he said, suggesting those industries are strengthening after a sluggish second and third quarter.

26.  Mitsubishi also owns a stake in Proton, the Malaysian automobile company, and that stake in turn could give DaimlerChrysler improved access to the Southeast Asian market.

27.  Or that person might get a discount on the fine in exchange for accepting information from advertisers, like automobile insurance companies.

28.  One report centers on Ford Motor Co. buying Kia Motors, the automobile company that declared bankruptcy last summer.

29.  Patent suits against automobile companies are relatively rare.

30.  Shares of computer, oil and automobile companies lost the most, while beverage, drug and electrical equipment and utility companies rose.