1.   Harman said diversification is one way his company can respond to forces it can not control, such as Market conditions.

2.   He observes that managed care companies have simply responded to employers who pay health benefits and want to cut costs.

3.   Not surprisingly, companies respond to its criticisms.

4.   Later, the company responded by advertising for staff.

5.   UK church-based organisation Rom-Aid appealed to International for help and the company responded by providing supplies of its Child-Safe paint.

6.   An oil company executive involved in making the pipeline decision said that by building a pipeline to Georgia, the companies would be responding to U.S. concerns.

7.   And companies are responding by dragging unions into court.

8.   And major beauty companies are responding to the new demand.

9.   And unless companies respond in kind, they will wither like towns on the Great Plains that failed to attract the early rail lines.

10.   As of the end of the day Monday, neither company had responded, according to OSHA spokesman Ted Fitzgerald.