1.   Bad Frog Brewery Inc. is one of dozens of small brewers seeking a niche in a highly competitive market.

2.   But the new, profit-minded Boeing is happy to let Airbus take a chance, while it seeks another niche.

3.   Most are seeking niches and have ground rules for where they will or will not go.

4.   Recall that microbes have been evolving for billions of years and that they are always seeking new niches, Dewhirst said.

5.   With no hope of subsidies from the government, all the companies are desperately seeking niches that pay immediate returns on minimal investments.

6.   But in seeking a niche in a depressed and seemingly saturated market Kmart and never managed to show a profit.

7.   Gorbachev said he might seek that niche for himself, and has already been talking to various pro-reform leaders about cooperation.

8.   Like other foreign auto makers, Ford is seeking a niche in China as the government draws up plans for developing a world-class car industry.