31.   Combination ticket deals are being offered, including some that also allow admission to Sea World and Wet and Wild, the water park now owned by Universal.

32.   Companies face state and federal regulatory hurdles before they can offer such deals.

33.   Computer City, the unit of the Tandy Corp. that offers these deals, says about a third of its customers miss the deadline.

34.   Consumer electronics chains Circuit City Stores Inc. and Best Buy Co. each offered deals that include no payments for a year, continuing their cutthroat competition.

35.   Credit unions often offer better deals than banks.

36.   Consequently, ACOG is offering sweeter deals.

37.   Developing countries are offering deals, including tax breaks and low-paid labor, that bottom-liners cannot resist.

38.   Eggers said prosecutors offered another deal to let Cummings plead guilty to second-degree murder.

39.   EarthLink, for example, plans to offer subscribers deals on cable-based Internet access beginning this month.

40.   Finally, Compaq also offers several deals for getting on the Net.