In the auto industry, Toyota has to watch developments at rivals Nissan, Honda, General Motors, and Ford; in the DRAM market, Toshiba has to keep tabs on Hitachi, Mitsubishi, NEC, Oki, Fujitsu, and Texas Instruments; and in disk drives, Seagate must monitor Conner Peripherals, IBM, Quantum, and others.
Africa was virtually handed over to Dfid, the Foreign Office faced savage cuts and its country desk officers who watch developments in each nation state day by day, were abolished.
The statement said Datang Telecom's management would watch developments in the case closely and that the company "hopes the truth of the issue will be clarified as soon as possible".
Therefore, we will carefully watch developments in the field and assume that an amendment of these recommendations may be needed in 2 years.
The disease has spread to Texas and California, where officials are anxiously watching developments in Florida.
They are tracking oil futures so they have a handle on possible gasoline price increases and watching developments in Europe to be on top of any possible financial crisis as much as they are analyzing Gallup tracking polls.
Updated at 8.06am BST 7.48am BST China's economic growth slows to 7.4% in Q1 Markets will be nervously watching developments in Ukraine, with Russian claims that the country was close to "civil war".
Quite a few shops have reopened, and trade thrives on market streets that were recently deserted.The Sunni insurgents may be a bit less active because they are watching developments in Anbar province, to the west of Baghdad, where the Americans are helping Sunni tribes to set up paramilitary forces.
No one who watched developments in Washington could fail to have been impressed by the forethought, precision, subtlety, & steady nerves of the President and those around him in preparing our bold & ultimately successful initiative.
