21.   Red-hot salsa may be prized in Texas, but in the land of the bean and the cod, consumers prefer bland dips for their snack foods.

22.   Sales of small cars are depressed in part, they say, because some consumers prefer to buy used sport utility vehicles.

23.   Still, the UT recipe creates a lithium battery with somewhat longer recharging times than many consumers might prefer, hence the need for further development to refine it.

24.   Tests have shown consumers unknowingly prefer the fake fragrance to the real thing.

25.   Still, some consumers prefer to do their own fabric-fingering.

26.   That is because the controls on Margherita are still conventional analog controls, which consumers prefer.

27.   The chip-embedded cards were supposed to be easier than cash, but consumers preferred ATM cards, credit cards or simply paying the old-fashioned way.

28.   The Justice Department disagrees, siding with competitors who charge that Microsoft uses its leverage as a monopoly to shut out rival software that consumers may prefer.

29.   The New York climate will not accommodate this style, and the California soil tends to be too acidic to produce the floral Muller-Thurgaus that consumers prefer.

30.   They finally have realized that fashion-minded consumers prefer to buy individual pieces and put their own looks together.