21.   For two centuries, stock prices have been quoted in fractions, with trading increments based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight.

22.   General Motors and Ford Motor both announced plans last August for sites that would quote lower prices.

23.   Grandfather was holding the chickens by their legs when he quoted the price.

24.   He declines to quote prices.

25.   However, many hotels and tour companies are now quoting prices only in dollars.

26.   IBM does not quote prices, but the new machines are expected to sell in the low hundreds of thousands to the low millions.

27.   Next year, marketers will also get broader access to consumer information from Atlanta Gas Light that will make it easier for them to quote prices.

28.   On lower Broadway, a famous architect-designer regularly asks an antiques dealer to quote inflated prices to clients, the better to bolster his own commission.

29.   Prices are quoted here with little evident shame, the way they would be in Hong Kong or London or the Hamptons.

30.   Prices were quoted ahead of time, and precisely that amount was billed.