"Ninety-nine found jobs last year, usually with small or medium-sized companies."

Other Norwegian whalers found employment with Japanese companies as well.

He found work with companies dealing with cocoa and coffee roasting.

Some, like Ms. Crockett, found freelance jobs with other companies.

After taking a break from film to direct opera, Russell found financing with various independent companies.

Others, it said, could find work with companies that would be offered property on the yard grounds to develop new industries.

"Each time we find new people with new ideas and new companies."

As a direct result I am finding negotiation of new contracts with companies in Asian countries very difficult and sales declining.

As a result, many industries are finding themselves with fewer but bigger companies, each one usually taking a bigger market share.

Apple executives said, for instance, that Pink might find uses with companies that want to develop their own software.