91.   Oil prices have surged, and the company has increased oil production and cut operating costs.

92.   Oil service stocks also reflect uncertainty about whether big oil companies will greatly increase capital spending soon.

93.   Once companies increased hiring, it slowed again.

94.   One possible solution, Sheffi suggested, is for companies to judiciously increase suppliers, dividing orders between domestic providers and foreign alternatives.

95.   Only weeks earlier, the company had increased its fire insurance coverage.

96.   Other American companies are increasing their marketing efforts, and the response has been promising.

97.   Pharmaceutical companies dramatically increased their effort to find an AIDS remedy after a move to place price controls on the early drugs was derailed.

98.   Republicans suggested to corporate supporters of the NIH that their companies could increase research spending to make up for any federal cutbacks.

99.   Results also show that the company is quickly increasing efficiency, analysts said.

100.   Recently, the largest paper companies again increased prices on toilet paper, paper towels, dinner napkins and the like.