21.   Newport said the banking industry has failed to recognize that it must protect customers at ATMs.

22.   PUC Commissioner Carl Wood, who has championed stronger consumer rules to protect telephone customers, said the current complaint process is under review.

23.   Regulators also said they were considering various changes in the gas-pricing system to protect customers in the future.

24.   Preska acted at the request of the Securities Investor Protection Corp., a non-profit corporation that tries to protect customers when brokerages are in financial trouble.

25.   Regional companies fell hostage to powerful local politicians who blocked cutoffs and protected large customers who sometimes failed to pay their bills.

26.   Some costs were passed on to consumers, but because the deregulation plan largely protected retail customers, utilities were not able to recoup their costs.

27.   Some policies seem designed more to protect the company than to protect customers.

28.   The bills would have deregulated cable rates before competition by other video companies could protect customers from price-gouging cable operators.

29.   The company is being liquidated at the request of the Securities Investor Protection Corp., a non-profit operation that tries to protect customers when brokerages are in financial trouble.

30.   The court ruled that the restaurant had a duty to protect its customers because many crimes were committed on the premises in the three years preceding the assault.