21.   It sold divisions, cut costs and trimmed its biotechnology ambitions.

22.   Late last month, General Motors agreed to sell its division that includes the DirecTV satellite television operation to the EchoStar Communications Corp.

23.   Lately, Burnham has been selling smaller divisions to raise cash.

24.   Led by Chairman and Chief Executive Vernon Loucks, Baxter worked to offset this decline by trimming administrative costs, cutting staff and selling underperforming divisions.

25.   Lucas will review the business and decide whether or not to sell the division.

26.   Moreover, as winter approached, my staff and I became concerned that Westinghouse was about to set an absolute deadline for selling the division.

27.   Novell plans to sell the division by February.

28.   On Friday, the company said it would sell two divisions and fire half its workers to concentrate on developing flat-panel display screens.

29.   Over the next three months, the company announced that its quarterly earnings had more than doubled and that it planned to sell a division.

30.   Restive shareholders will not be content with just seeing the shoe division sold, he said.