1.   A few skimpy corporate pensions were paid, but they were offered as much as departure incentives designed to promote business efficiency as expressions of altruism.

2.   Its principal advantage is that it most accurately reflects changes in the value of the demised property rather than the business efficiency of a particular tenant or inflation generally.

3.   At the same time, global competition and improved business efficiency are helping to hold down consumer prices.

4.   At some point you have to weigh business efficiency.

5.   Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, warned Monday that increases in business efficiency could not counterbalance the strains on the economy forever.

6.   But at a minimum the clips made a pretty strong case that such applications of handheld technology can deliver real business efficiencies.

7.   Compared with the merger wave of a decade ago, acquisitions today are driven by a much greater concern for business efficiencies and market opportunities.

8.   First, it validated his view that the improvement in the growth rate of productivity, or business efficiency, was more than a flash in the plan.

9.   It also has helped enhance business efficiency by importing innovations from non-U.S. developers.

10.   The company attributed this rise to a desire by corporations to improve computer-related business efficiencies when faced with an economic downturn.