11.   Consumer-oriented financial services companies depend on inexpensive financing and a growing economy to spur profits.

12.   Finally, he said he wanted other businesses to become stronger so the company would depend less heavily on printers and ink for profits.

13.   For now, the only showroom for Daewoo is in Natick because the company is depending on college students to market the cars by word of mouth.

14.   For years, her small company has depended upon the federally funded Job Training Partnership Act to supply welders when she lands a big contract.

15.   If companies in fact depended on dramatic, topdown change, few would survive.

16.   Japanese electronic and computer-related companies depend on robust growth in the U.S. computer industry to offset sluggish demand at home.

17.   Latin American companies depend, in large part, on exports to the U.S.

18.   Lending companies like CIT depend heavily on cheap financing for the loans they make.

19.   Many tech companies depend heavily on the last three months of the year and the holiday shopping season, traditionally a prime selling time for PCs and electronic gadgets.

20.   Moreover, both companies depend on a network of franchisees.