1.   With cash reserves dwindling and bank credit expensive, companies will accelerate their already steady selling of shares.

2.   Although the company has accelerated tenant changes in the past three years, J.C. Nichols is constantly reviewing its tenant base.

3.   As a result, South African companies are rapidly accelerating their pace of investment.

4.   As well as launching a nationwide loyalty card, the company will accelerate conversion of its Texas home-improvement stores to the more successful Homebase format.

5.   As well as launching the nationwide loyalty card, the company will accelerate conversion of its Texas home-improvement stores to the more successful Homebase format.

6.   Because the sales slowdown is trimming profit margins, Eaton said the company is accelerating its cost-cutting campaign.

7.   A Nissan spokesman said Monday that the company was accelerating its plan to reduce its work force.

8.   But Wall Street is betting that the situation is about to change, as traditional media companies accelerate their efforts to gain online advertisers and audiences.

9.   European stocks rose amid better-than-expected earnings and hopes steady economic growth, tame inflation and stable interest rates will allow companies to accelerate earnings growth.

10.   For these reasons, analysts expect wireless companies to accelerate a recent trend of forging allegiances and merging.