--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 05:09:25 -0800 From: "Virginia R. Hetrick" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Company towns Hi, Jim - That's a very cool idea (except that I'm sorry you're the guy who really got stuck). I dunno whether this idea will help or not. But, ....... One thing you might want to try out is to take the names of the top n companies (Fortune or S&P 500 comes to mind, but it may need to be less). Once you have the list, strip out ands, thes, and other conjunctions, adjectives, and prepositions. Then, head for one of the Internet search engines. Go to the regional pages (that's what it's called on Yahoo, I assume the other search engines have similar areas in their sites). Then search for each of the words remaining in your list. This has to be faster than flipping pages. -- \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California 0 Voicemail: 310.471.1766 Oo Email: [log in to unmask] My health site: http://www.yana.org/hetrick My computer site: http://home1.gte.net/drjuice Site of the month: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectasfood.html --- End Forwarded Message ---