1.   Ruggles is now licensing electronics companies around the world to sell add-on quad Decoders for home video.

2.   This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country.

3.   We are maintaining our successful record of licensing modern technology to other companies around the world.

4.   Although more transportation companies are adopting nonsmoking policies, there are fewer such companies around, aside from airlines and car rental firms.

5.   And as one looks at the fall schedules of opera companies around the country, one sees little evidence of revivals of once-hot new operas.

6.   Andlinger is no stranger to turning struggling companies around.

7.   As companies around Europe slash their workforces to boost productivity and profits, governments bid for new jobs by offering grants, forgiving taxes and adjusting regulations.

8.   Banking industry analysts said the deal would encourage other large financial companies around the world to pursue mergers of their own to remain competitive.

9.   Because Boeing has soaked up most qualified workers in the Seattle area, it is now hunting on the home turf of other aerospace companies around the globe.

10.   A calm, quiet-spoken Washingtonian, he has built a network of companies around his Black Entertainment Television network.