Sentence examples for discontinued some from inspiring English sources

Sony Ericsson shut research centers and discontinued some products in the United States in 2003 to cut costs.

Sales tumbled 42percentt at Fingerhut, the company's catalog and Internet business, after the division discontinued some catalogs and scaled back its Web operations.

The bank already discontinued trade in mortgage-backed securities in the United States, shut mortgage businesses and discontinued some consumer finance products.

Last spring, it cut 100 jobs and discontinued some products as it restructured the United States operations of its North America Books and Home Entertainment business.

He also discontinued some products, like the Peace Pop, that were thought to have outworn their welcome, and introduced new flavors like Dilbert's World Totally Nuts, licensing the comic strip character Dilbert.

Backroads (call up www.backroads.com), which is based in Berkeley, Calif., and combines bicycling and hiking tours with high-end accommodations, has temporarily discontinued some trips to Turkey and Morocco as well as other parts of Indonesia, said Tom Hale, the company's founder and president.

The costs are related to discontinuing some businesses, consolidating plants and cutting jobs, Ziff Davis said.

State Medicaid officials said they recommended discontinuing some transplants only after assessing the success rates for previous patients.

Selling and discontinuing some products as well as outsourcing search businesses to Microsoft contributed to the decline.

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. lowered its 2003 earnings forecast yesterday, citing soft sales, tornado damage at a major plant and the cost of discontinuing some products.

A common response to the external challenges has been revisiting the companies' product portfolio, which often resulted both discontinuing some products and introducing new ones.