1.  But big departments like Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection, Justice, State and Commerce have been caught in the budget squeeze.

2.  Meanwhile, big corporate computing departments are also rushing to strike deals with application providers to shed at least some of their applications.

3.  Other huge consumer marketers such as Anheuser-Busch and Kraft maintain big ethnic marketing departments.

4.  The big American department stores sent buying teams.