41.  CUTBACKS AT ANOTHER INTERNET CONSULTANT Viant Corp. became the latest e-commerce consulting company to announce it would revamp its business and eliminate jobs.

42.  CSC is not the first consulting company with a foot in the bookstore.

43.  Conn said Acura had hired Herbert Zeltner Inc. in North Salem, N.Y., a consulting company, to help manage the review.

44.  Consulting companies like InteCap Inc., which helps corporations develop intellectual property strategies, are in high demand.

45.  Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group, is a market research and consulting company for the computer and other high-technology industries.

46.  David Sturtz, research analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston, said the cutbacks at the consulting companies were not unexpected given their reliance on capital from dot-com start-ups.

47.  Edward Ossie, a charter subscriber and CEO of MTW, a software consulting company based in Kansas City, Mo., doubts he has ever finished an issue.

48.  Every consulting company uses technology internally as well.

49.  Employees should look at themselves as vendors who provide services, said Patricia B. Loegering, president of Career Visions, a consulting company in Houston.

50.  Financed with federal school-to-work funds, the program operates like a small business inside the school, a sort of internal consulting company.