41.   Confronted by a television reporter, the factory manager said the practice was widespread and even natural in a seasonal industry, with lots of excess inventory.

42.   Corporate PC buyers and consumer PC customers have slowed purchases, leaving many PC makers with excess inventory.

43.   Corporate PC buyers and consumer PC customers have slowed their purchases of personal computers, and that left many PC makers with excess inventory.

44.   Corel has now eliminated this excess inventory and adopted a just-in-time delivery system.

45.   Compounding the problem of excess inventory is the fact that much of the merchandise is dated.

46.   Disk-drive makers are struggling to deal with excess inventory of high-end drives and steep price declines for drives used in low-cost personal computers.

47.   DISAPPOINTING RESULTS AT NOVELL Novell, the troubled provider of computer networking software, reported a sharp decline in revenues as it tried to reduce excess inventory among resellers.

48.   Earlier this year, Compaq got stuck with excess inventory and had to slash prices to make room for new products.

49.   Earnings benefited from a decline in denim prices from excess inventory at manufacturers, as well as from moves to produce more overseas.

50.   Earlier this year, Compaq got stuck with excess inventory that it had to slash prices on in order to sell and make room for new products.