41.  Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it will become the first cellular company to provide service using so-called CDMA-based digital technology and equipment.

42.  Brazilian retailer Makro Atacadista this week became the first company in the region to sell shares since a devaluation of the Mexican peso dried up demand for Latin securities.

43.  A Colorado company, working with state regulators, has become the first Internet company to get permission to start selling cars online in the state.

44.  A state-owned automaker interested in becoming the first Chinese company to be traded on the Tokyo stock exchange was also among the companies the newspaper named.

45.  Adaptec is not the first company to put its annual report in comic book form.

46.  Agouron is the first company to make a protease inhibitor available specifically to children.

47.  Brigitte Boisselier, director of Clonaid, the first human cloning company, said she is prepared to clone babies for infertile couples immediately.

48.  Boston Chicken Inc. said it formed a company to take its restaurants overseas, which signed up its first company to open a Boston Market store outside the U.S.

49.  Both companies are seeking orphan drug status, which comes with seven years of market exclusivity to the first company that demonstrates a breakthrough treatment.

50.  But approval will almost certainly come soon, making Bell Atlantic the first Bell company into the long-distance market.