51.   Consumer companies, blessed with brand names, are reaching for the money on the table.

52.   Consumer electronics companies, meanwhile, have seen lackluster profits recently and consider high-definition television sets to be the most important new product in decades.

53.   Consumer financing companies, like Acom Co., that benefit most from low interest rates were helped by the weak tankan, traders said.

54.   Consumer products companies are considered strong performers in both good and bad economies, analysts said.

55.   Consumer products companies such as Gillette learned long ago that you make money on the blades, not the razors.

56.   Consumer products companies such as PT Gudang Garmam, which makes the clove cigarettes favored by Indonesians, pulled the index lower.

57.   Critics of online consumer complaint companies say the Web companies themselves are greedy.

58.   Crawford likes consumer companies that have been beaten down, like Gillette and Colgate-Palmolive, and real estate investment trusts.

59.   CUC, based in Stamford, Connecticut, is a consumer services company.

60.   Daimler-Benz has already been working on its own automotive computer project, as have several electronics companies, notably the Dutch consumer electronics company Philips Electronics NV.