Just over 50 percent of the Denver-based company is still owned by Tele-Communications.

The Denver-based company took over a small, old hotel with a good address - the sort of establishment enjoying a lucrative revival in older cities throughout the country.

Two years later, the Denver-based company emerged from bankruptcy court protection, which had been brought on by numerous asbestos liabilities.

Newmont, a Denver-based company and the world's biggest gold producer, has denied responsibility, saying the illnesses are common to poor coastal communities.

The Denver-based company was for decades the world's largest asbestos manufacturer and, until the trust was set up, the largest defendant.

The Denver-based company controls the largest group of cable subscribers in the country and has interests in many channels as well.

The two Denver-based companies are cable television operators.

And their business is much to the benefit of Omnitrax Inc., the Denver-based company that bought the port and access railroad in 1997.

The Denver-based company also has equity interests in at least 13 channels or programming services.

Fifth was the Apache Corporation, a Denver-based company involved in oil and gas exploration.