11.   Many a cook has discovered this truth after buying a pasta maker, bread machine, beef jerky maker or counter-top potato chip fryer.

12.   Pasta makers, though, said a surge of imports is due to supply and demand.

13.   Popeil burned up his toll-free lines with his food dehydrator, then pasta maker, then hair product.

14.   The group has invested in an eclectic mix of companies, ranging from a pasta maker to an outdoor advertising firm to a hydroelectric power company.

15.   The pasta maker represents a breakthrough for Popeil.

16.   U.S. pasta makers are urging the Clinton administration keep Canada wheat shipments flowing into the U.S. as a commitment to free trade.

17.   U.S. pasta makers also face competition from imported pasta from Italy and Turkey, even though the U.S. imposed tariffs last summer, Kinnaird said.

18.   With such tactics, the Italian pasta makers have managed to maintain momentum.

19.   World-renowned athletes run around with the logos of pasta makers and electronics companies obliterating the team name.

20.   Edwin L. Artzt, former CEO of Procter and Gamble, is joining the board of Italian pasta maker Barilla.