41.   As a practical matter, FCC officials said Friday, a cable operator would have to offer something substantially new and different to attract customers willing to pay more.

42.   As a whole, the American designers should enhance the presence in the United States of their European employers by attracting American customers with an appetite for luxury.

43.   As electronic commerce expands, computer makers and Web site marketers are bound to get more serious about attracting female customers, they predict.

44.   As competition among U.S. banks heats up to attract customers for banking and wire transfer services, Mexican immigrant customers like Varea are being courted as never before.

45.   As U.S. delinquency rates rose in the last year, companies cut back on trying to attract more customers by offering cards with low introductory rates.

46.   Asked if he could tell whether the advertisements have been successful in attracting customers, Levitt said.

47.   As women have grown less inclined to spend money, analysts said many department stores have offered special discounts to attract customers.

48.   At the moment, AOL is their main shop window, attracting more customers than the Internet directly.

49.   Attracting customers is great for profits, but because those customers tend to come from other companies, such gains have a relatively low effect on overall productivity.

50.   At the time, other Spanish banks rushed to lower their fixed-mortgage rates and also launch new variable-rate products to attract new customers.