21.  International organizations such as the IMF are no doubt just as inhibited about forecasting a recession in the country that is their biggest shareholder.

22.  Investors Michael Price and Ronald Perelman were the biggest shareholders in Sunbeam.

23.  Investors said the shares were also boosted by the prospect of Generale des Eaux becoming the biggest shareholder in Havas.

24.  IPC said its biggest shareholder, New York-based American International Group Inc., will support the transaction.

25.  It if exercised the right, Bankers Trust would become of the five biggest shareholders of the bank.

26.  It is the biggest shareholder in Barnesandnoble.com, which went public last year, and operates Bertelsmann Online, a German-language vendor of books and music.

27.  It owns the Fox television network in U.S., Hong Kong-based Star TV and is the biggest shareholder in the European satellite broadcaster BSkyB Plc.

28.  Jaffre, at Elf, had been negotiating with Petrofina and its biggest shareholder, Albert Frere.

29.  It was the biggest shareholder of both companies.

30.  Mannesmann stepped up its defense against Vodafone AirTouch Tuesday, accelerating a plan to spin off its older industrial holdings and securing the support of its biggest shareholder.