1.   About half command multinational corporations building businesses within Latin America, while the other half run local companies consolidating business at home while seeking new markets abroad.

2.   Alcan, for its part, has for the past three years been consolidating its business to focus on aluminum production and is expanding capacity.

3.   But the situation is compounded on the Web, where the ease of consolidating many businesses into one space has spurred a wave of portal building.

4.   Company spokesmen, citing industry competition, declined to share production numbers or to say where the vacuum-canning business would be consolidated.

5.   Lam said the firings were part of a broader restructuring that will consolidate its business units into two divisions based around marketing and engineering.

6.   Separately, the bank announced a number of executive changes that will consolidate various businesses.

7.   That immediately set off speculation that it would seek to join forces with another aerospace company to consolidate business.

8.   The idea of making great profits from consolidating mundane businesses seems too good to be true.

9.   The long-distance business will be consolidated under MCI Telecommunications Corp., a unit of MCI.

10.   The leaders of Great Britain, France and Germany are joining forces to urge their aerospace and defense electronics companies to consolidate their businesses to compete more effectively worldwide.