71.  Cosipa is the first company operating a private port to try to hire non-union workers.

72.  Coryo Investment Securities Corp. and Dongsuh Securities Co. were among those filing for bankruptcy -- the first companies in the financial industry to do so.

73.  Cosipa is the first company operating a private port that has tried to hire non-union workers.

74.  Cosipa, as the steel company is known, is the first company operating a private port in Brazil to bar union dockworkers.

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

76.  Daig was the first company to produce technology used in catheter ablation procedures, which are used to destroy tissues causing the heart to beat too rapidly.

77.  Distributions Cia Paulista de Forca e Luz will be the first company to be sold, he said.

78.  Disco was the first Argentine company to undertake an IPO on both the Argentine and New York exchanges.

79.  DuPont is not the first company to seek riches from the Okefenokee.

80.  Earlier that month, Vimpel-Communications, a mobile telephone company, became the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.