11.   It could even force suppliers to shift more operations outside North America to countries where wage rates are lower, Paroloni said.

12.   More and more, companies like Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. are shifting operations overseas.

13.   Operators of many chat lines shifted operations to the Caribbean, which conveniently uses a three-digit area code that mimics domestic U.S. long-distance codes.

14.   Possible buyers include the independent oil and gas companies that have been snapping up reserves from the large oil companies, which are shifting their operations abroad.

15.   Some manufacturers are responding to the troubled domestic environment by increasingly shifting operations overseas, according to a twice-yearly survey of overseas investment included in this tankan.

16.   Some labor unions fear that that would force companies to shift more operations overseas at the cost of jobs in the United States.

17.   SP, whose operations are being shifted to St. Louis and Omaha in the wake of its acquisition by Union Pacific, will vacate the building early next year.

18.   The AFL-CIO opposed NAFTA on the ground that Americans would lose jobs as companies shifted operations to Mexico.

19.   The government-sponsored enterprise would slowly shift its operations to the new company, but would remain in existence as a GSE for several years.

20.   The three lieutenants reportedly shifted their operations from Juarez to Cancun.