He created a centralized operation to serve customers no longer judged to merit the personal attention of a broker.

He is dropping thousands of unprofitable clients and moving away from a centralized operation based in New York.

In his assessment of his party's get-out-the-vote apparatus, Mr. Dean said he thought Republicans did have an advantage by running a centralized operation.

Iraqis are setting up centralized operations centers to share information and coordinate anti-insurgent activities.

In May 2000, he instituted centralized back-office operations for Doğuş' multiple banks and is doing the same for its auto dealerships.

Friedman stated that centralized operations of economic activity is always accompanied by political repression.

But the advent of trucking, good roads and new laundry machinery created opportunities for large, centralized operations.

Mr. Morosky has cut the staff and centralized operations at Allied.

Big city school systems tend to swing back and forth over long periods of time between centralized and decentralized operations.

The White House is a centralized operation that can shape day-to-day political debate.