31.  Big trading European companies were the main buyers of the Ukrainian, Russian, South African and Chinese steel and sellers on the U.S. market.

32.  Boeing faces competition for sales of smaller aircraft from U.S. rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. and from Airbus Industrie, which is a consortium of European aerospace companies.

33.  Brandywine has received several bids, including one from a European insurance company, bankers said.

34.  A big reason for that is intense competition for power-generation contracts from European companies with government subsidies.

35.  A final condition was that the European companies were barred from cross-subsidizing the GlobalOne venture with revenues from domestic phone services.

36.  A European company called G Star was among the first to push it forward.

37.  A falling dollar damages the prospect for earnings at many European companies, many of which depend on the U.S. market to fuel export growth.

38.  A person following the case for the Canadian government said the money Whitacre is accused of diverting was to have paid off European companies participating in the alleged price-fixing.

39.  A range of companies already are lining up with their foreign partners to compete against the two state-owned European companies.

40.  A person following the case for the Canadian government has said investigators think the money had been intended to bribe European companies in the price-fixing scheme.