1.   At a new conference, the director of Pemex, Rogelio Montemayor, a PRI politician, denied that the company had leaned on any employee to back Labastida.

2.   All that has changed, he said, is that the company is now leaning toward using primarily fiber optic wire in its network.

3.   Instead, he said his company is leaning toward a rival fingerprint-ID system created by Mytec Technologies in Toronto.

4.   Major Japanese companies are also leaning heavily on their suppliers to pare costs by reducing employees and merging.

5.   Philippine newspapers today reported the U.S. auto company was leaning toward Manila and that the government was working to sweeten its incentives package to lure the investment.

6.   The big companies are leaning hard on their parts suppliers in Mexico to renegotiate contracts for price cuts that reflect lower labor costs.

7.   The oil companies are reportedly leaning toward building a shorter route running from Baku to the Georgian port of Supsa on the Black Sea.