1.   They in turn supply the car companies direct.

2.   And just as surely as smoking causes cancer, the tobacco companies are directing an enormous amount of their advertising toward children.

3.   As companies have directed their brainpower to solving market-driven problems, they have continued to make major advances in technologies, from semiconductor engineering to biotechnology.

4.   But it is unclear whether leasing companies owned by manufacturers will direct cars in bulk to the superstores.

5.   In ads running during ballgames in New York, Seattle and other markets, the company directs fans to its etopps.com Web site.

6.   The company can direct you to a distributor.

7.   The insurance company directed them to a general surgeon.

8.   They were not about to let an upstart company direct an assault on their profitable world and their lucrative corporate customers.

9.   To ease the moral dilemma, Piot urged, drug companies should direct their research toward technologies that will be globally relevant and affordable.