1.   Areas on which the organisation is especially keen include semiconductors, telecommunications, factory automation, medical instruments and electronic office systems.

2.   And who would ever dream of putting sex appeal into a campaign to sell medical instruments in the U K?

3.   Attitudes at the top must change, said William W. George, the former chairman and chief executive of Medtronic, a leading manufacturer of medical instruments.

4.   A telemedicine demonstration from East Carolina University let participants in San Jose consult with physicians in South Carolina via medical instruments that send images over the phone lines.

5.   Also on the list were Raytheon, Fleet Financial Group, BankBoston, State Street, the retailer TJX, and Boston Scientific, which makes medical instruments.

6.   But Thermo Electron expects a lot more of its business to come from medical diagnostic instruments in the future.

7.   Coherent designs and makes electro-optical systems, industrial laser systems and other medical instruments.

8.   Conejo shows him that a village school has become a torture chamber and that the soldiers use stolen medical instruments in doing their handiwork.

9.   Cook is the founder of Cook Group, a medical instrument manufacturer in Bloomington, Ind.

10.   Electron beam accelerators already are used extensively to disinfect medical instruments and supplies, such as catheters.