Many companies have upgraded their sales manpower and tested new selling, distribution, and promotion techniques to gain a bigger competitive edge.

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis.

Many companies have systems, particularly in R & D, which work more or less well, depending upon size and actual belief in the policy on the part of administration, as will be abundantly apparent in subsequent quotations.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

Many large companies have a privileged status when it comes to taxation.

Many Armenian companies, especially those owned by government-connected tycoons, have long reported suspiciously low earnings, thereby avoiding paying larger taxes.

Many of these new companies could not meet such requirements to be listed on the Board.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

Many 3rd party companies would introduce compatible Ethernet and Token Ring cards that used these same drivers.

Many companies in the American food industry develop new products requiring minimal preparation, such as frozen entrees.

Many commercial BBS software companies that continue to support their old BBS software products switched to the shareware model or made it entirely free.

Many private taxicab companies also operate larger minibus vehicles to cater for group fares.

Many modern companies operate without a COO.

Many companies saw that there were good profits to be made in the calculator business with the margin on these high prices.

Many smaller computer companies had come and gone in the 1950s, wiped out when new technical developments rendered their platforms obsolete, and even large companies like RCA and General Electric were failing to make a profit in the market.

Many mental health professionals use the manual to determine and help communicate a patient's diagnosis after an evaluation ; hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies in the US also generally require a ' five axis ' DSM diagnosis of all the patients treated.

Many of the people involved with INGRES became convinced of the future commercial success of such systems, and formed their own companies to commercialize the work but with an SQL interface.

Many companies began to market expert systems shells from universities, renamed " generators " because they added to the shell a tool for writing rules in plain language and thus, theoretically, allowed to write expert systems without a programming language nor any other software.

Many bonding companies will not issue bonds to convicted felons, also effectively barring them from certain jobs.

Many technical investors use fundamentals to limit their universe of possible stock to ' good ' companies.

Many companies are working on techniques to reduce cost in a variety of ways including reducing the amount of platinum needed in each individual cell.

Many companies often provide free samples to the press in order to generate media coverage for their products.

Many public utilities, including the national telecommunications company Matáv, the national oil and gas conglomerate MOL Group, and electricity supply and production companies were privatized as well.

" Many Canadian companies such as Axiom, Energy, Mirage, Paradigm, PSB and Revel use blind testing extensively in designing their loudspeakers.

Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, or very close to that.

Many assemblers offer additional mechanisms to facilitate program development, to control the assembly process, and to aid debugging.

Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other.

Many retailers open very early ( typically 5 am or even earlier ) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores.

Many events offer beginner-level instructions for up to half an hour before the dance.

Many also offer continuing and adult education.

Many of the challenges listed above offer a glimpse into some of the obstacles that corporations implementing a CRM suite face ; in many cases time, resources and staffing do not allow for the troubleshooting necessary to tackle an issue and the system is shelved or sidestepped instead.

Search-engine filters: Many search engines, such as Google and Alta Vista offer users the option of turning on a safety filter.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Many departments offer honors programs requiring students seeking that distinction to engage in " independent, sustained work ," culminating in the production of a thesis.

Many mainline Protestant churches offer communicants gluten-free alternatives to wheaten bread, usually in the form of a rice-based cracker or gluten-free bread.

Many Americans attribute the dish to France and offer as evidence a notation by U. S. President Thomas Jefferson.

Many restaurants offer their house pikilía ( variety ) a platter with a smorgasbord of various mezedes that can be served immediately to customers looking for a quick or light meal.

Many artisanal, hand made cheeses, both common varieties and local specialties, are produced by small family farms throughout Greece and offer distinct flavors atypical of the mass produced varieties found commercially in Greece and abroad.

* Many credit cards offer payment protection plans which are a form of credit insurance.

Many paint makers now offer faux-maroger's media or faux-megilps, generally made by substituting different materials, such as lime, for genuine lead, or ( as in the case of Gamblin's Neo-Megilp ) by creating a similar product out of specially thickened alkyd medium.

Many establishments offer karaoke on a weekly schedule, while some have shows every night.

Many offer points collection with the Qantas frequent flyer program or conversion to points for Virgin Australia's Velocity Rewards program.

Many operators offer dial-up internet service, and wireless internet services.

Many systems also offer a web interface for reading and sending email that is independent of any particular MUA.

Many even have institutes of higher learning that offer degrees in notarial law.

Many object databases, for example VOSS, offer support for versioning.

Many foreign deities become assimilated into Hinduism, and some Hindus may sometimes offer prayers to Jesus along with their traditional forms of God.

Many of these offer triple-play services consisting of a fixed line service, broadband internet access and access to television programmes.

Many opponents of school choice such as Martin Carnoy argue that public schools perform similarly to private schools when teaching similar groups of students, and that the conception of public schools as " failing " in comparison to private schools is more due to the demographic differences between public and private schools than to actual differences in the quality of the education the schools offer.