21.  Still, the firm hoped to dangle stock options in front of engineers and salespeople to keep them from jumping to public Silicon Valley companies.

22.  That is especially true now that barriers to taking young companies public have been eased, making private capital less crucial in nursing them.

23.  The initial public offering would have made Mendik the only public traded company to own office buildings in Manhattan.

24.  The IPO would have made Mendik the only public traded company to own office buildings in Manhattan.

25.  The rash of IPOs and additional stock offerings by public Internet companies is sating much of the demand.

26.  The window for taking companies public got very narrow when the market for tech stocks tumbled.

27.  They found that the new paradigm was an almost complete failure in describing the recent operating performances of public American companies.

28.  This was especially so in the tech-laden Nasdaq market, where valuations for many newly public Internet companies bore no relation to reality.

29.  To take the company public, two prominent investment banks, bitter rivals, have temporarily buried the hatchet, joining in an improbable alliance to underwrite the sale.

30.  To take the company public, two rival investment banks joined to underwrite the sale.