For the bank, the deal fit a pattern of concentrating on fee-based operations while selling off other businesses.

After the Second World War, agriculture was concentrated on ever fewer, and therefore bigger, operations.

The course lasts 3 months (14 weeks) and concentrates on joint operations.

Wal-Mart's decision to sell reflects a desire to concentrate on the company's food and general-merchandise operations, without distraction from other types of businesses.

It is a vehicle through which suppliers and users hedge price risk so they can concentrate on day-to-day operations.

As a result senior executives tend to concentrate on operations rather than on policy and direction.

Under the G.M. system, the president concentrates on operations while the chairman charts broader strategy.

Better use of people - staff can concentrate on business-critical and value-added operations.

Tenneco had said it wanted to leave the oil and gas business to concentrate on its shipbuilding, farm equipment and other operations.

We were too busy concentrating on day-to-day operations.