1.   A hysterectomy is a major operation with a long recovery period.

2.   Alcatel Cable will regroup operations with an international management structure, Pierre said.

3.   Although he runs the operation with a firm hand, the Steelers are more like a family than any other team.

4.   He added that there are no plans to merge the Ketchum public-relations operations with its existing public-relations agency, Porter Novelli.

5.   The company said it will combine its international commercial-industrial operations with its domestic commercial-industrial business unit.

6.   The environmentally friendly retail chain will combine its Web operations with its retail and mail order activities.

7.   There will be four engines in operation with two trains to push, pull, top and tail, and double-head.

8.   Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable national infrastructure and systems including a facilities-based Tier One national network.

9.   With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew.