1.   Chemical companies that have diversified out of commodity chemicals, like ethylene and styrene, should turn in the best earnings this quarter, Leming said.

2.   During his tenure he was instrumental in diversifying the company from its traditional field of insurance into the brokerage, investment and banking businesses.

3.   McGrath denied the company is too diversified.

4.   Most U.S. companies are well diversified, Ms. Cohen said, and are benefiting from a strong domestic economy.

5.   Peck has indicated, however, that he plans to expand and diversify the company, not reinvent it.

6.   The company is diversified, however, and no one division has sufficient market share to be a price leader, or able to demand lower prices from suppliers.

7.   --The health of the broad stock market, which has an impact on the actual business of many diversified insurance companies.

8.   The Irving, Texas-based company is evenly diversified among chemicals, crude oil production and fuel sales.

9.   The U.K. diversified industrial company also posted better-than-expected first-half pretax profit.

10.   Watson said in an interview earlier this year that a string of power plant acquisitions had kept his company diversified and balanced.