1.   And companies embraced options in part because they did not have to account for them as an employee cost and therefore could keep corporate expenses down.

2.   As a result, unless the big companies embrace a new trend, it is hard to find much evidence of it in a typical food store.

3.   As European companies increasingly embrace the hard-edged opportunism of American companies, they are coolly shifting capital to whichever part of the world offers the biggest prospects for profit.

4.   As such, cell manufacturing is the ultimate factory-floor refinement of other team-management techniques that western companies have embraced in recent years.

5.   As part of its effort to get the most out of its workers, the company has long embraced time management and other industrial-engineering techniques.

6.   All the metal parts were machined to exact specifications, even as other firearms companies embraced the less costly, less precise system of metal stamping.

7.   But he observes that the company has clearly embraced the trend.

8.   By now, most American opera companies have embraced some system of projected titles.

9.   Companies have embraced the statements, emblazoned on everything from plaques to coffee mugs, as an important marketing tool.

10.   He said the company would embrace local brands and flavors more than it had in the past.