1.   As companies downsize, streamline and try to wring greater efficiencies from their operations, they are simultaneously outsourcing projects and job functions that previously were handled in-house.

2.   Bradley said the Ricoh offer comes as manufacturers and distributors are consolidating their operations in an effort to wring more efficiencies out of the market.

3.   But a real debate is emerging over whether these businesses can wring more efficiencies out of the system and therefore make money over the long haul.

4.   By selling only over the Internet, iDot hopes to wring maximum efficiency out of the process of building and marketing personal computers.

5.   He has pledged to wring more efficiency from the bureaucracy.

6.   The mergers are a continuing effort to wring efficiencies of scale in companies which serve developed-world markets where profits have been badly battered by health care reform.

7.   The offer comes as manufacturers and distributors are consolidating their operations in an effort to wring more efficiencies out of the market.

8.   To wring more efficiency out of the system, HPI called for a sweeping restructuring of rank-and-file staff.