21.   Cristinziano predicts that over time, more companies will adopt the virtual close, or some version of it.

22.   Critics say those measures force companies to adopt quotas that make them consciously hire and promote women and members of minorities over white men.

23.   Does your company adopt your suggestions?

24.   During a study mission to Japan several years ago, Boeing executives learned that the most successful companies adopted pre-employment screening processes and worked in teams.

25.   Faced with these changes, companies can adopt a converter program, which would translate local currencies into euros and vice versa.

26.   Hadley Reynolds, an analyst with the Delphi Group, said more companies will adopt corporate portals because the technology makes a lot of sense.

27.   He declined to comment on why the company had not adopted all the principles.

28.   He said the concept behind SDMI was to create overarching standards for distributing digital music but to let companies adopt their own technologies to meet those standards.

29.   Hence the dot-com label, which the company adopted last year, changing its name from Green Mountain Energy Resources.

30.   In addition to offering the crisis counseling, his company has adopted more lenient policies.