11.   Consumers are shifting attention to compact cars and sales are strong, but profit margins on them are thin.

12.   Ford, for instance, has offered heavily discounted financing on its Taurus midsized sedan and Escort compact car.

13.   General Motors Corp. makes compact cars here, and Dell Computers assembles PCs. Telefonica of Spain controls wireless communications.

14.   General Motors plans to concentrate in Brazil its worldwide production of the Corsa, a compact car that is enormously popular in this country.

15.   Have you ever had to fold yourself in half to get into the back seat of a compact car?

16.   He has seen them take the seats out of school buses, he says, and stuff a couple of compact cars inside.

17.   He was believed to have made his escape in a white or pale-colored compact car.

18.   How many circus clowns fit into a compact car?

19.   In a small room on the fifth floor of a bank building here is a compact car with no engine, no trunk, no tires.

20.   In conjunction with this deal, Hertz is offering a fourth day free for a three-day rental of a four-door compact car or larger.