11.   Buses are slow because they operate like giant taxis, stopping whenever passengers ask to get off.

12.   But Servicemaster also operated like a family-run company.

13.   But the Red Cross is also a blood business, which after a history of indebtedness and regulatory troubles has come to operate like a centralized corporation.

14.   By hiring someone with no experience in government, Orange County seems to be testing a suddenly popular philosophy that says government should learn to operate like a business.

15.   Cardinals, of course, tend to operate like politicians.

16.   Day said even with its unusual structure and policyholders, it still operates like other insurers.

17.   Deep sea boats set nets to operate like big drawstring purses, first encircling, then cinching up large schools of yellowfin tuna.

18.   Does the sports world operate like the business world?

19.   Eight-liners often look and operate like slot machines.

20.   English soccer hooligans, in particular, operate like organized gangs.