11.   Per-share earnings declined after the company almost doubled its common stock outstanding to pay for its acquisition of First Interstate Bancorp.

12.   Severino said the company recently doubled the size of its Billerica facility, and predicted that the company would continue to add jobs in Massachusetts.

13.   Since Charles Hurwitz, a Texas investor, bought Palco a decade ago, the company has nearly doubled its employment and production here.

14.   Since January, the company has almost doubled the capacity of its network and the logjam appears to be breaking up in many areas.

15.   Since the cutbacks, the privately held company has doubled its revenue and sliced its expenses in half, he said.

16.   The Chilean and Argentine projects should enable the company to double its sales within three to four years, Spencer said.

17.   The company has doubled its logging operation since being swallowed in a hostile take-over engineered by Texas tycoon Charles Hurwitz.

18.   The company recently doubled the capacity of its Cork, Ireland, plant to meet international customer demand.

19.   The company recently doubled gasoline production at a remodeled refinery in in south-central Russia, and plans to boost production at a second revamped refinery.

20.   The company will double again with the Great Western acquisition.