It is less clear how well the company will fare in studies of longer-term reliability.

How the companies fare is important not only to the two men but to the nation.

Indeed, travel is among the categories in which dot-com companies have fared best.

The company has left investors with few indications of how the company will fare.

Yet by other measures, the company has fared well against its competitors.

Small companies have fared better in times of inflation, he said.

Individual companies will probably fare differently under the plan.

The company and its other shareholders may not fare as well, with large debts due later this year.

Other companies whose chief executives left under pressure during the year did not fare as well.

Advertising became supreme, and bigger companies fared better in that market.