61.   Texas stocks fell, pulled down by weak sales by apparel retailers and a month-to-month decline in airline traffic.

62.   That resulted in strong sales gains at department and general merchandise stores, but poor showings at apparel retailers.

63.   The apparel retailer had argued that only the U.S. Customs Service can prosecute alleged violations of customs laws.

64.   The end result is that Wall Street will hear an apparel retailer cough and assume that it has diphtheria.

65.   There is likely to be some good news for apparel retailers.

66.   This is good news for apparel retailers, particularly department stores just beginning their online ventures.

67.   Those targets include financial services providers, auto makers and travel-related companies such as airlines and apparel retailers.

68.   TJX, the giant off-price apparel retailer, made the most of stronger sales earlier in the year and protected the bottom line with tight inventory control later.

69.   To compete with offprice apparel retailers, department stores have resorted to what can seem like weekly sales to lure customers.

70.   Today Talbots is perhaps the hottest apparel retailer in the business, by Wall Street standards.