1.   All regional electricity distributors buy power from the generating companies through a special pool that serves as a market or wholesaler.

2.   Drug distributors buy products from the pharmaceutical companies and sell them to hospitals, drugstores and other retailers.

3.   Distributors are buying small presses, for instance.

4.   In the past, most distributors would buy only films they had seen, often at film festivals.

5.   Permitting independent distributors to buy those items and import them to the U.S., they say, would undermine their businesses.

6.   The producer price index, which includes many goods bought by distributors, is often a leading indicator of the more closely watched consumer price index.

7.   Few film distributors are buying.

8.   Japanese distributors eagerly bought his shipments of eels, a popular seafood in Asia.

9.   Some are bought by distributors in China or Indonesia and resold in Europe or America.

10.   In some instances, distributors buy formula cans sold at deep discounts from retailers, remove coupons or other identifying marks from labels and replace them with false labels.