51.   The company has shifted its strategy over the past year, emphasizing sales of higher-margin software and services.

52.   The company is shifting its focus from offering political information online to selling software to help groups lobby online.

53.   The company shifted certain ad sales in-house at the station from an outside company.

54.   The company shifted its focus to specialty chips and sales declined.

55.   The companies shifted production of lower cost and simpler products to cheaper sites in Southeast Asia to avoid the effects of the strong yen.

56.   The company shifted administrators four times, he said, but was never able to correct shortcomings.

57.   The company then shifted to wireless digital TV service, which it plans to start this fall in Boston.

58.   The company also is shifting more employees among continents, Pearce said, with more Europeans coming to work in North America, for example.

59.   The company will shift some gears to reach out especially to the young customer this fall.

60.   The company has been shifting its focus to selling client-server software that manages computer networks and scaling back products for large mainframe computers.