1.   Also standing to benefit are large direct marketers that blanket neighborhoods with advertisements and coupons.

2.   American Home Assurance Co., a direct marketer of property and automobile insurance in Japan, is revving its engines.

3.   And nosy reporters, he says, are not so much the problem as are direct marketers, credit bureaus and other commercial information processors.

4.   As a result, those who wanted speed and control over the configuration of their own systems looked elsewhere, often at direct marketers such as Dell and Gateway.

5.   As the technology to reach people has improved, so has the reach of direct marketers, and the potential privacy threat.

6.   At the same time, this approach defines specific audiences that can be sold to advertisers and direct marketers.

7.   At one extreme are the privacy fundamentalists, who denounce the potential abuse on the part of direct marketers and their increasingly sophisticated personal-profiling techniques.

8.   But direct marketers are trying to combat that through self-policing and a new code of ethics.

9.   But is this an audience that advertisers and direct marketers want to reach?

10.   Connecticut stocks rose for a second day as Micro Warehouse Inc. gained amid expectations that sales by the direct marketer of computer products will keep soaring.