Even as firms scramble to recover, the grim task of tracking down the missing continued.

The consulting business requires significantly more capital than a firm's traditional auditing practice, and firms have scrambled to retain and attract their consulting employees.

The effect of all this is that domestic firms are scrambling to react.

Those tussles often wind up in court as the firms scramble for customers.

In the province, as firms scramble to win public sector contracts, the average tenders being offered are lagging far behind the actual cost of construction.

With all this, American firms are scrambling to position themselves to take advantage of the changing climate.

With costs continually going up, consulting firms are scrambling to find new sources of revenue.

Even large firms that had prospered by concentrating on real estate are scrambling to meet new challenges and to stay ahead of the competition.

Since the explosion, the firm has been scrambling to find alternative office space.

Most firms are now scrambling to become experts in the field.