1.   Already, some landfill and incinerator operators are beginning to increase the price of dropping off trash.

2.   A few tour operators have begun organizing trips for single-parent families, offering biking or rafting expeditions to exotic locales like Indonesia.

3.   All this is about to change, as terrestrial broadcasters, cable companies and satellite operators begin moving to a new digital-TV standard.

4.   But many legislators were not amused when the official House camera operators began panning the chamber.

5.   Cable operators have only just begun, in small pockets, to transmit digital signals.

6.   Elsewhere, tour operators have begun to pare capacity, sacrificing volume for fatter margins on late sales.

7.   Immediately, he said, the operators began broadcasting appeals for a repeat of the message and continued doing so for an hour.

8.   In Europe, the trend is spawning investment opportunities, as private and government-owned highway operators begin to sell shares on the stock market.

9.   Last December, the mayor was taken by surprise when the operators of Bay Cruises began offering gambling excursions from Sheepshead Bay without warning.

10.   Plant operators began increasing power on Friday.