11. It will be fueled, in part, by dramatic advances in what chips will be able to do and increased emphasis on how they are designed. 12. Sears has increased its emphasis on clothing, which has higher margins than hard goods such as electronics, in recent years to boost earnings. 13. Some may increase their emphasis on managing a series of interconnected projects, much as a company like Schlumberger or Bechtel does already. 14. The choice of Nishigaki as president suggests that NEC plans to increase its emphasis on value-added services like those offered by Fujitsu, IBM, Cisco Systems and Lucent. 15. The examination of the refunds arose out of concern that by increasing its emphasis on electronic filing, the Internal Revenue Service has helped make refund fraud easier. 16. The revised SAT will cover a third year of high school math, eliminate verbal analogy questions and increase the emphasis on reading skills. 17. The United Nations may begin increasing emphasis on the relief aspects of its mission over its role of military peacekeeping. 18. This additional round of job reductions stems from Wells increasing its emphasis on nontraditional banking by opening more outlets in supermarkets. 19. This increases the emphasis on carbon dioxide, which stays in the atmosphere for about a century, and downgrades the significance of methane. 20. Waggoner did that by increasing his lines of upscale bicycles and increasing his emphasis on repairs. |