1.   Their use by firms has meant that, at a wholesale level, sight accounts have become less popular.

2.   Although price inflation has remained persistently mild at both the retail and wholesale levels, most economists and other Fed watchers accept the official Fed explanation at face value.

3.   Analysts expect the report to show that prices at the wholesale level rose at a little faster pace in September than in August, though inflation still remains subdued.

4.   And prices, at least on the wholesale level, are still going nowhere.

5.   At the wholesale level, therefore, studios charge dealers roughly five times as much for a rental movie as they do for a sales title.

6.   A ripple effect is influencing prices of other meats as well, particularly on the wholesale level.

7.   A week ago the July Producer Price Index report showed the largest price decline at the wholesale level in eight years.

8.   But at the wholesale level, deregulation is flourishing.

9.   Claudia Chandler, spokeswoman for the California Energy Commission, said prices have already dropped at the wholesale levels.

10.   Electricity was deregulated at the wholesale level.