1.  Any reading above 50 signals a business expansion.

2.  Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Mitchell said some protesters wore masks while damaging businesses during the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle last fall.

3.  Denmark-based International Service Systems A/S said it would not comment on a U.K. press report that it is interested in BET's cleaning business.

4.  Dennis Alonso, an out-of-luck alternative-fuel vehicle buyer from Scottsdale, thinks that provision protects politically connected businesses while average buyers get axed.

5.  Dennis Keegan, the head of proprietary trading business, recently resigned from Salomon Brothers.

6.  Dennis Washington, Morrison Knudsen's potential savior, has built a fortune acquiring and turning around troubled businesses.

7.  Dentist Steve Rueb figured his business trip to Orlando was the perfect opportunity for a family visit to Disney World.

8.  Denver Papers in Joint Agreement The Denver Rocky Mountain News announced that it intended to combine its business operations with those of The Denver Post.

9.  Defining criteria for entrance into the Hall is a risky business at best, and adding moral clauses is downright impossible.

10.  Defining the boundaries is as much a matter of making sound business judgments as of applying formulas or doing calculations.