1.   As a result, firms devoted resources to increasing earnings and froze or scaled back pro bono commitments.

2.   Disney joins CNN, ABC and The New York Times in scaling back media-hosted Internet ventures in recent days.

3.   He said that if he reduced spending or scaled backed his tax cuts in favor of deficit reduction, it would have hurt people.

4.   Local phone bills remain stable for the moment, but the regional Bell telephone companies are scaling back their plans to enter the television business.

5.   Scaling back big embassy staffs such as those in London and Paris, now that the Cold War has ended some of the demand for intelligence-gathering.

6.   Since then, Spindler has focused Apple on its basic businesses, while cutting costs and scaling back some projects, like the Newton personal digital assistant.

7.   The cancellations, which have left hundreds of customers stranded at airports up and down the state, come as the airline is scaling back its operations.

8.   The New York State Common Retirement fund said it is freezing its tobacco holdings, and the New York teachers fund said it was scaling back its tobacco investments.

9.   Scaling back initial reforms, the government last year curbed sales of smaller state firms and has vowed to keep majority ownership of larger ones in government hands.