41. Particularly in new product areas, the company has been constrained by shortages of key components, and is taking steps to increase order volume with its major suppliers. 42. Prior to reaching this agreement, the company already offered interpreters for some presentations and listening devices, which increase the volume for hard-of-hearing guests. 43. Schmidt said the old way of offsetting pressure on margins by increasing credit volume is no longer attractive because of increased risk and capital costs. 44. Some Amex members said Thursday that they expected a merger to generate more equity listings and to increase trading volume. 45. Sources in the industry said some feed producers mixed imported MBM with domestic MBM to increase the volume or adjust ratios of ingredients. 46. Some of the interpreters, captioning systems and devices to increase volume are already in place. 47. Speed and agility have become more important than simply increasing the volume of business as information technologies mushroom, Brown said. 48. That increased volume and forced competitors to follow suit. 49. That should help the government-sponsored agency more quickly create secondary markets to provide private agricultural lenders with greater liquidity and increase loan volume. 50. That will increase the volume of communications, and many were watching Monday to see how the system would handle the load. |