1.   If the bidder is willing to accept minority shareholders, a takeover offer is the easier method of gaining control of the target.

2.   Altec Lansing has developed an easier method, one that allows you to throw your voice across the Internet.

3.   Critics have complained that the industry has been slow to respond to consumers and prefers court battles to coming up with easier methods of distribution.

4.   If a credit card bill is paid in full each month, it may not represent an increase in borrowing, just an easier method of payment.

5.   Medical-device makers, meanwhile, hope to weigh in eventually with easier methods for diabetics to monitor their blood sugar levels and to take insulin.

6.   Part of the reason, however, may lie in easier methods of filing, including an electronic complaint form now posted at the DOT Web site.

7.   These patients can now look forward to high-tech screening methods for glucose levels, faster-acting forms of insulin and easier methods of injection.

8.   Whereas MRI scanners do this by turning the field on and off and letting the nuclei return to their upright positions, Rugar hit upon an easier method.

9.   But cloning also has opened fresh areas of medical research and led to new drugs for heart attack, cystic fibrosis and stroke and easier methods of scientific testing.

10.   Cloning also has opened fresh areas of medical research and led to new drugs for heart attack, cystic fibrosis and stroke and easier methods of scientific testing.