21.  The alliance of the little company that inventor Henry Kloss built with a multinational electronic giant set off a frenzy among investors.

22.  The little Marietta company with a funky computer and a unique way of doing business won lots of national media attention.

23.  The little company in suburban Atlanta bought the program, called it Uninstaller, and started selling it -- with only modest success.

24.  The industry is still small, with nearly a score of little companies in the field.

25.  The little Massachusetts company has announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Hasbro Inc., the toy giant based in Pawtucket, R.I.

26.  The reason is the little companies in the Mac ecosystem are in danger of suffocating.

27.  The saga of Optical Cable, a good little company whose shares have zoomed well beyond what fundamentals would justify, is evidence that speculation is truly running amok.

28.  This is having a pronounced impact, particularly on the thousands of little companies that provide services from catering to makeup.

29.  They just buy up the little company.

30.  While big companies can cope, the task has been much harder for little companies that usually supply parts to the big ones.