11.   Factory outlets offer slow-selling or slightly out-of-date brand-name merchandise sold directly from the outlets at discounted prices.

12.   Factory outlets sell such brand-name merchandise as Liz Claiborne, Nike, Eddie Bauer and Brooks Brothers direct from the manufacturers at discounted prices.

13.   Guess sells its products through leading department stores, as well as its own shops and factory outlets.

14.   Having a car meant my wife could get to the crystal factory outlet just outside the city where she gleefully purchased seconds after seconds.

15.   He says the hook for factory outlets was always price, and he sees department stores fighting back successfully.

16.   His company has developed Bicester Village, a rural factory outlet for discounted brand-name clothes, between the prime British tourism destinations of Oxford and Stratford-on-Avon.

17.   In the past computer manufacturers mostly sold their refurbished products directly to consumers through retail factory outlets or in bulk to third-party resellers.

18.   Its Compaq Works factory outlet also has an online site at www.compaqworks.com.

19.   Just off the interstate, past the factory outlet stores south of Denver, sits a subdivision carved into hills once covered with scrub.

20.   Maureen Fallon, the personal assistant to the president, said that factory outlets typically sold remnants from the end of bolts of silk.