51.  A strike at UPS, a closely held company that dominates that surface package delivery business, would paralyze portions of the freight industry.

52.  A year later the closely held company was sold to Tyson Foods Inc. for an undisclosed price.

53.  About three-quarters of the fund will be loans to companies or financial instruments and the rest will be equity investments in privately held companies.

54.  ACI, a privately held company run by eight independent producers, makes made-for-TV movies.

55.  ACT, a privately held company, reported cloning embryos and growing a few of them to a very early stage of development invisible to the human eye.

56.  ACI is a privately held company run by eight independent producers, which makes made-for-TV movies.

57.  All publicly held companies must follow the rules of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, a privately financed group based in Norwalk, Conn.

58.  Brach, a privately held company based here, is protected if Brock walks away from the deal.

59.  But a small, privately held Pennsylvania company that sells a similar piece of software already installed on several hundred thousand personal computers is crying foul.

60.  But competition from private companies does not mean the publicly held companies cannot do well in the long run.