11.   But Council officials said narrowing the focus and the range of the bill was the only way to insure passage.

12.   By choosing the spinoff route, Corning joins a string of other companies that are narrowing their focus to boost profits.

13.   By February the team had narrowed its focus to five possible suspects, including a computer scientist working in the nuclear weapons area at Los Alamos, officials said.

14.   GE is a conglomerate at a time when dozens of big companies get their stocks up by spinning off subsidiaries and narrowing their focus.

15.   GE is a conglomerate when dozens of big companies are pushing up their share prices by spinning off subsidiaries and narrowing their focus.

16.   He also said the unit has picked up some consulting business abandoned by equipment firms trying to narrow their focus to weather the downturn.

17.   Hanson, within a few months of opening the enormous Blue Fin, has lowered the volume, narrowed the focus and raised the bar.

18.   He calculates the range of votes possible in each precinct, then uses information gained in analyses of the other precincts to narrow his focus.

19.   If the Rangers can narrow their focus to that one basic question and resolve it, then they can conquer the world.

20.   In addition, downloadable databases narrow the focus to census tracts.