1.   And, as the market tightens, older workers who have acquired sought-after skills are finding they, too, can successfully market themselves.

2.   As further evidence that the insurance market has tightened, the rolls of a state insurer of last resort have doubled in the past two years.

3.   As foreign banks grew increasingly nervous about extending credit to South Korea, the interbank market tightened in November.

4.   A. We have tried to maintain discipline, and this market just tightens the restrictions on what we will do.

5.   But as the job market has tightened, telemarketing has increasingly become a haven for older white-collar workers set adrift by the latest recessionary shock or round of downsizing.

6.   But as the labor market tightens, they are being handed out by a broad range of employers competing for people with vital skills.

7.   But unlike California, the other states say they have held on to their regulatory power, while ensuring adequate outside power sources should the market tighten.

8.   He warned that if the labor markets tightened much, the Fed would boost interest rates to guard against the inflationary effect of rising wages.

9.   Labor markets tightened further --outside of the service sector.

10.   Nevertheless, in many areas where the labor market was tightening, workers were more interested in job security, the report said, or companies were improving benefits.