"It's hard to identify specific large companies that would not feel compelled to go in this round."

She said analysts would still help bankers identify and evaluate companies that Merrill could take public.

The central concept is to identify companies that deliver growth at a moderate price.

It would identify companies that provide revenue to the Sudanese government and fail to use their influence to end the fighting.

The administration said it is seeking to identify private companies to take over those expenses.

The process of identifying companies, negotiating the terms to buy them and helping their management improve the business never gets old, he said.

Federal and state officials said they could not immediately identify companies that had violated the 1996 law.

The difficulty is identifying companies that are better values than others.

These can be used to identify companies active in or diversifying into new sectors.

For one thing, it is not enough simply to identify companies with gobs of cash on the books.