1.   These days businesses have to be able to compete internationally.

2.   Being a chief executive is a risky business these days, especially if you run an American company.

3.   Bender was taking many business courses and hoped to run his own business some day, his mother said.

4.   But they rarely buy an island home or business these days for fear of the nationalist bombs.

5.   But you have to question how the university does business these days.

6.   CABLE UNDERGOES A METAMORPHOSIS In the cable business these days, expansive visions of the future are out.

7.   Even his publisher expressed surprise that Vise was so interested in selling books, which says all too much about the publishing business these days.

8.   Even sympathetic Arab bankers are reluctant to extend credit to West Bank businesses these days.

9.   Faxing Almost every business these days conducts a lot of its communications via the fax machine.

10.   For the radio industry generally, and at many individual stations, business these days brings double-digit gains in advertising month after month.