"We seek greater efficiency and market share at the top end of the business."

The author acknowledged this as a lesson to the writer, too: "For me, writing seeks efficiency.

The consolidation is the most recent in a skein of such decisions as multinational marketers seek increased efficiency and economy in their advertising.

The announcement continues a trend among phone companies to seek new efficiency in an increasingly competitive communications business by paring their payrolls.

Moreover, national conditions have quite different effects on firms, depending on whether they are seeking markets, resources or efficiency.

Action on some of its other goals on seeking efficiency and streamlining the bureaucracy have yet to materialize.

This time, however, they are not just seeking greater economic efficiency but eventually political restructuring as well.

He said he would seek productivity and efficiency from the bureaucracy.

Newly formed media-buying agencies, unbundled from their creative counterparts, seek efficiency above all.

Lately, providing good service has also become a matter of technology, as customers increasingly seek speed and efficiency in their shopping.