1.   As a result, more companies are bolstering their retention and development programs, hoping to keep top talent long enough to groom a replacement layer.

2.   Both companies have recently bolstered their reserves for future losses, indicating that loan loss rates are continuing to rise.

3.   By allowing more people to buy the stock, the company could bolster its appeal, some analysts and investors said.

4.   Consumers could be unaffected, some industry analysts said, if the combined company can bolster profits by cutting costs rather than by raising prices.

5.   Hewlett-Packard said in March that it will spin off its noncomputer operations to allow the company to bolster its core computer and printer businesses.

6.   Now the company is bolstering its use of a more powerful technology, known as ATM.

7.   Phone companies already are bolstering their global operations in an effort to provide customers with worldwide operations all of their voice and data services.

8.   So his company bolsters the Adirondack chairs with braces and other furniture with metal supports.

9.   The company likely bolstered its case for a faltering business when it filed for protection under the U.S Bankrupcty Code last week.

10.   The companies have bolstered their businesses with commercial customers.