31.  Because of the relatively small size of its population, Costa Rica represents little more than a footnote on the marketing plans of many multinational companies.

32.  Boeing, on the other hand, is striving to balance these demands with calls from investors to create a more efficient and competitive multinational company.

33.  Big multinational companies dropped on concern that overseas profits may lag.

34.  Brazil encouraged multinational companies to set up manufacturing operations behind similar tariff barriers.

35.  Brazilian Health Minister Jose Serra has taken on powerful lobbies in the past several years, including multinational pharmaceutical companies.

36.  -- A House provision granting some employees of U.S. multinational companies relief from U.S. income taxes.

37.  -- Grant employees of U.S. multinational companies relief from U.S. income taxes.

38.  A pledge to make bribery by multinational companies a crime might eventually reduce corruption in the world economy.

39.  A Miami graduate, Gribetz became a multimillionaire as head of a multinational manufacturing company.

40.  A number of large multinational companies have in recent years set up investment funds in the Valley in an effort to tap into the entrepreneurial spirit of the region.