1.   And oil services companies have been scouring the world to buy used equipment and investing heavily in new capacity to build rigs.

2.   As ordinary Iraqis scrounge for food and medicine, Saddam is scouring the world for tools to build new weapons.

3.   Bautista conceded that the carrier was not talking to any other airlines, though he has retained Chase Manhattan Bank to scour the world for potential partners.

4.   Even regional telephone companies and electric utilities, once the local yokels of American business, have joined the corporate jet set to scour the world for new markets.

5.   Even governments are scouring the world for new investors.

6.   He decided that if Bilco was to survive, it needed new business from overseas, and he scoured the world for orders.

7.   He scoured the world for ways to turn an investment that generated income into a capital gain, since gains are taxed at a lower rate than income.

8.   He has scoured the world in search of support and advice.

9.   Henrik Strabo and his colleagues at American Century Investments scour the world for small, fast-growing companies to fill their international mutual funds.

10.   Instead, these usually smallish outfits specialize in scouring the world for undiscovered deposits.