1.   ...efforts to solicit new customers by direct mail and television advertising.

2.   BankAmerica was content to creep along with its standard and gold cards, only soliciting customers near its Western branch network, analysts said.

3.   Federated Department Stores Inc. of Cincinnati said Tuesday its stores solicited credit card customers who had filed for bankruptcy to reaffirm their debts rather than have them dismissed.

4.   Fidelity has terminated relationships it had with two credit card marketers who solicited these customers.

5.   It went online last November, touting its three-dimensional computer-assisted design capabilities and soliciting new customers.

6.   Neither bank is currently soliciting customers outside their market area with large pre-approved lines.

7.   Officials of Orange and Rockland said they expected a number of suppliers and electricity brokers to solicit residential customers by telephone or advertising in local newspapers.

8.   On Tuesday, DirecTV began to solicit Cablevision customers through newspaper advertisements and door-to-door fliers to switch to its satellite-television service to watch the Yankees on YES.

9.   The cult rented the house last October and began soliciting customers for its business, Higher Source, which created web pages for the Internet.

10.   These allow smaller companies to solicit customers, respond to bids and take orders via the Internet with minimal investment in technology.