21.   By utilizing the students more productively, the company hopes to further trim costs.

22.   Cap Gemini has trimmed fixed costs and focused on high-margin services, an analyst with a top French banking company said.

23.   Cap Gemini has trimmed fixed costs and has focused on high-margin services, an analyst with a top French banking company said.

24.   Clearly, for capitalism to work well, companies have to be free to trim costs and meet new competitive challenges.

25.   CMGI has been cutting staff and trimming costs at many of its companies, both on the operating side and in the venture portfolio.

26.   Chrysler continues to trim costs and has adopted a new operating system aimed at making its factories as efficient as those of industry-best Toyota Motor Co.

27.   Companies also found that they could trim costs further by cutting the amount they contributed.

28.   Companies and employees who do it say telecommuting is good business, cutting travel time, trimming real estate costs and boosting productivity.

29.   Colgate is able to devote so much money to advertising because it has been trimming costs in other areas.

30.   Corporations continue to invest at record rates in more advanced equipment, especially personal computers and other high-tech tools to trim labor costs.