41.   More and more companies are adopting financial incentives that encourage hiring and promoting of minorities and women.

42.   More companies will adopt internal education programs aimed at boosting the technical skills of their workforce.

43.   Nationwide, more companies are adopting at-home programs for large numbers of employees.

44.   None of the new rules are currently required, though some companies have already adopted them.

45.   Now smaller companies are adopting the method, often through the Internet.

46.   Nishigaki characterized the problems facing NEC as structural and said the company would adopt a number of emergency measures to cope with them.

47.   On the international front, the board will come up with a list of basic corporate governance principles that every company should adopt.

48.   Other phone companies have adopted similar approaches to selling residential services.

49.   Operating profits more than doubled, although comparisons are difficult because the company adopted fresh-start accounting when it emerged from bankruptcy last October.

50.   Once a company adopts the revised policy, it cannot apply the new terms to its customers until their current policies come up for renewal.