41.   They predicted layoffs, cost-cutting measures and divestitures to focus the company, much as George M.K. Fisher has handled Kodak.

42.   Though the company is focused on allergy vaccines, AlleCure is also conducting extensive research on asthma.

43.   To encourage commercially focused companies to respond to military needs more easily, the Defense Department has also tried to overhaul the way it makes its purchases.

44.   Yates acknowledged the criticsm, noting the company is now focused on building its waste processing plants overseas and for federal government agencies such as the Department of Energy.

45.   Because companies are focused on reducing, rather their aggressively building their inventories, that translates into a drag on economic growth.

46.   But for now, his company is focused on providing cheap launch services for small communications satellites and university research projects.

47.   But the companies declined to comment on the report and some analysts said the chances of that merger were unlikely because the companies were focused on reducing debt.

48.   Chief executive R.L. Waltrip said in a statement that the company is still focused on its core funeral and cemetery operations and aims to increase market share.

49.   Companies that focus only on cost-cutting during tough times, without doing anything new or innovative to win new business, will become extinct.

50.   He also shook up management and focused the company on legal, business and scientific publishing.