31.   Consumers will benefit from the MCI-BT marriage, analysts said.

32.   Consumers will benefit if the ruling frees the utilities to seek power from cheaper sources, including surplus capacity available from other western utilities.

33.   Consumers will benefit most from the change because the interest charged on credit-card, home-equity and other loans is tied to bank prime rates.

34.   Consumers would benefit from the federal ban, Blumenthal said, because they would not have to search for ATM machines that do not charge transaction fees.

35.   Executives of the newly minted media Friday were busy talking up how consumers would benefit from the new venture.

36.   Hayes, however, said consumers locally will benefit.

37.   Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that ERCOT was right to delay the test project, and expressed optimism that consumers ultimately will benefit from deregulation.

38.   He said consumers would have benefited from the mergers.

39.   Health plan officials say that consumers benefit from mergers because they can find a broader choice of doctors in the combined plans.

40.   How will consumer benefit.