1.   Cable-television companies are racing to re-engineer their systems to carry Internet traffic as well as sitcoms and sports.

2.   Already, companies are racing to sell tests that can identify those who harbor such genes.

3.   And numerous pharmaceutical companies are racing to make and test a variety of angiogenesis inhibitors.

4.   As more pharmaceutical companies raced to develop genetically improved crops, many European consumers were becoming increasingly concerned about crops with altered DNA.

5.   As companies race to exploit the Russian prizes, Western experts are probing, admiring and sometimes imitating the secrets.

6.   As use spreads it will become yet more democratic, and big companies are racing to make it simpler to access.

7.   As the community of non-English speaking people online grows, companies are racing to support the numerous languages of the World Wide Web.

8.   As students scrambled to win entry-level jobs at top companies, companies were racing to snare the top students.

9.   As the community of non-English-speaking people grows online, companies are racing to handle the numerous languages of the World Wide Web.

10.   Both companies are racing to develop high-capacity recording materials that do not lose data when a computer is turned off.