61.   NTT has been busily shedding jobs and reorganizing business operations over the last year in what it says is a bid to make itself a leaner organization.

62.   Officials said sanctions would be a last-resort, however, because U.S. insurance companies fear that such action would harm their existing business operations in Japan.

63.   Often, business operations of nonprofit organizations mean the difference between operating consistently in the red and posting only occasional losses.

64.   Other business operations plan to interview laid-off workers this week for possible rehire elsewhere within the company.

65.   Others note that any slowdown in business operations could erode competitiveness.

66.   Productivity gains from streamlining business operations have their limits, though.

67.   Richard Floco, general manager for business operations, said that many of those problems have been addressed.

68.   Shares of the consumer business will trade as a tracking stock of the business operation.

69.   She has been handling the day-to-day business operations of the club.

70.   Since that time, U.S. government sanctions and other policies restricting business operations in South Africa have been removed.