U. S. BUSINESS TIMES

providing multiple-user access to computer databases through a global computer network connected by common protocols in the fields of business and agricultural information, namely international registries and directories of product, crop, livestock and service providers, business and industrial profiles, product and service reviews, statistical information relating to industrial and agricultural production, changes in economic indices and other economic issues, and editorial coverage with respect to all of the foregoing; providing electronic and computer consultation services; providing computerized on-line ordering services in the fields of business and agricultural information described above; providing access to an electronic bulletin board in the fields of business and agricultural information described above; and providing batch computer services