71.   American pressure has helped open the Japanese market to imported rice, apples, oranges and logs, and most Japanese have benefited from the resulting lower prices.

72.   American consumers would have access to better products, at lower prices, than ever.

73.   American firms charge a lower price that recaptures costs over many years.

74.   Analysts said lower prices and continued losses in a division that includes ship repair and other businesses are hurting the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based company.

75.   Analysts said the FCC decision would encourage greater competition and lower long-distance prices for consumers.

76.   Among the producers being hit hardest by a lower copper price is Broken Hill Proprietary, the second-largest producer.

77.   And as with camcorders and other modern electronic devices, competition and invention may lead to lower prices and more features.

78.   An individual investor who wanted to buy at the lower price, or even at a price between the two prices, was largely out of luck.

79.   An online pharmacy may be able to offer a drug at a lower price because of lower operating costs.

80.   Analysts are divided as to whether slower demand will lead to lower prices or will simply maintain them at this level.