11.   AnnTaylor management had told analysts the worst was behind it, and said the company will focus on separates and outfits for working women rather than overly casual clothing.

12.   Apple officials say the move will allow the troubled company to focus on its chief product, the Macintosh desktop computer.

13.   As a result, the company will focus on India, Malaysia and Indonesia and continue efforts to expand in China, he said.

14.   As a matter of survival, most biotechnology companies have focused their research on areas with huge potential markets such as cancer, heart disease or arthritis.

15.   As long as the company focuses on its basic businesses, its profitability will return, he said.

16.   As the space shuttle proved itself, American launching companies focused almost exclusively on the military market.

17.   As insurance companies focus their business more on health care, rising health costs could cut into earnings, analysts said.

18.   Basically, Dayton says, smart companies focus on their business niche, then find partners to do everything else.

19.   Besides making personal computers, the company will be focusing on building the Internet infrastructure.

20.   Bernd Gutting, managing director of the Hong Kong operation, said the company would initially focus on regional blue chip stocks.