Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination.

Bigger companies, too, are adjusting their business to the new realities.

But by and large, the companies adjusted and resumed their growth.

Based on an analysis of these messages, a company might adjust its pricing or marketing strategy.

Wisely, Congress has established a $1.6 billion conversion program to help companies adjust.

The company also adjusted its financial results upward for 2002.

It may simply be a painful but temporary period in which companies adjust to falling prices.

Still, it would not be the first time that American companies adjusted a merger proposal at the 11th hour.

But after an initial shock, analysts say, the companies adjusted to the new order.

The company adjusted the prices every four weeks, based on the company's book value.