1.   As a result, the superintendent was told, the company was quitting the free-computer business.

2.   However, in recent months, BlackBerry sales have begun to cool as companies quit buying many gadgets for employees and competition has begun to heat up.

3.   If Citigroup is serious about improving industry practices, he added, the company should quit battling laws against predatory lending.

4.   Many companies quit the market or raised their prices.

5.   One of the reasons the company quit raising cotton was environmental concerns, such as the use of chemicals, Wood said.

6.   She acknowledged that many in her department are still using Wang computers, several years after that company quit the word-processing business.

7.   Subsequently, many companies quit writing new business, raised rates or reduced coverage.

8.   The company also quit making computer disk drive components, a business in which it had invested heavily but had never made money.

9.   The economists warn against setting price caps so low that power companies quit the industry.

10.   Those Insurance Department rules also require companies to quit collecting the surcharges three years after they were first imposed.