Others are created only to help companies compile mailing lists.

She said that as of that Monday morning several large companies had not yet compiled the data themselves.

But private companies were still eager to extract and compile valuable information from public records.

So far this year, the company has compiled more than 20,000 articles, editing them down to about 500 words each.

The company had compiled a list of 4,000 people who had expressed an interest in the development.

The statement said the company had compiled a short list of agencies that would participate in the review but did not identify them.

He added that the company had compiled "a short list of about three to four agencies," but had declined to identify them.

Haynes helped the company compile reports and offered opinions on the validity of their claims.

Microsoft will also send e-mail to more than five million people on lists the company has compiled.

Generally though, job interviews follow a pattern so standard that one company recently compiled a list of the 15 most frequently asked interview questions.