1.   Aircraft manufacturers like Boeing have also been forced by tough competition to offer steep discounts.

2.   AMP officials argue that Allied Signal has sought to buy its shares at a steep discount from their proven value.

3.   Among other restrictions, the special judgment prevented the newspaper from extending steep discounts to reliable advertisers.

4.   Analysts said that the most vulnerable markets were those where United Healthcare does not have enough enrollees to negotiate steep discounts with hospitals and doctors.

5.   An employee might ask to extend a business trip over a weekend, which often saves the company money because of the steep discounts on leisure air fares.

6.   And corporate recruiters report that when they participate in one fair, they inevitably are offered a steep discount at competing ones.

7.   And plans by some drug makers to offer steep discounts has prompted cries for price reductions in this country.

8.   Auto rates in Massachusetts are set by the state insurance commissioner, but over the past two years insurers have offered steep discounts off the state-set rates.

9.   Back-end loading itself is often complicated by the fact that many companies offer steep discounts on their wares to make sales.

10.   Blockbuster has also been hurt by retailers such as Wal-Mart that sell videos at steep discounts.