11.   U.S. technology underlies many of those projects, and over the next few months major companies could be scaling back their profit estimates as big-ticket sales evaporate.

12.   With elections next year, analysts say the issue could well lead to pressure on the administration to scale back Russian financial aid through the International Monetary Fund.

13.   Yet scaling back the program is politically risky, and even House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls it the most difficult and delicate issue facing Congress.

14.   As part of continuing negotiations, the senators scaled that back to encourage economic development around new schools in six unidentified pilot cities.

15.   But now that Israel is scaling back its presence in the West Bank, Gaza is heating up.

16.   Despite scaling back its operations worldwide, the Samsung Group of South Korea plans to invest more in Malaysia, a senior executive said Tuesday.

17.   He also said that Russian forces were scaling back their operations in Grozny, but indicated that fighting was not being called off altogether.

18.   Language to scale back a Federal Communications Commission move to authorize the microradio stations may end up attached to a pending appropriations compromise bill between the two houses.

19.   The United Nations has scaled back its observer mission in Liberia, and international leaders have made clear their patience with the warlords has run out.

20.   Australia is scaling back its contributionHill said Friday.