1.   Factory employment also dropped in January as manufacturers battled to maintain profit margins.

2.   In Germany, Deutsche Telekom is battling to maintain recent price increases for local calls.

3.   --Lobbyists for small businesses are battling to maintain provisions that would expand for the self-employed home-office and health-insurance tax deductions.

4.   The mayor has been battling to maintain services and cut taxes to keep businesses from fleeing New York City as its financial condition erodes.

5.   The texts are not only a window into the arbitrary world of Russian justice, but also into the mind of a man battling to maintain emotional equilibrium.

6.   Still battling to maintain support in the Chinese world, Taipei, too, is treating the end of colonial rule in Hong Kong as a shared victory.