1.   After all, gas for private cars was a luxury, the government reasoned, while oil was what kept Japan Inc. running.

2.   During this nomadic period, Maazel will undoubtedly try to keep things running as normally as possible.

3.   The competition is not just for the people who run the money, but for the marketing and other business people who keep the systems running.

4.   Others are keeping equipment running smoothly, collecting information from bombed-out caves and helping to train future members of an Afghan national military.

5.   Instructors for engineers kept trains running, and police were deployed to prevent strikers blocking tracks.

6.   Only several men directing traffic to keep operations running smoothly, and the thousands flow along like water from an open tap.

7.   The Taliban ordered all foreign aid workers to leave, but local Afghan staffers kept things running and relief supplies kept coming in, although at reduced levels.

8.   Volvo, also of Sweden, said it could probably keep production running through the week,