1.   Another problem is created by the fact that the merged company will own key cable programs that every cable system needs to offer customers.

2.   Arianespace is also planning to set up a subsidiary to offer customers financing, Avanzi said today.

3.   BANKS FUMBLING INTO CYBERSPACE Nearly all of the big banks have rushed to offer their customers on-line banking.

4.   Atlanta-based BellSouth, which offers local phone service in nine states in the southeast, seeks to offer customers in South Carolina and Louisiana long-distance service.

5.   Bell Atlantic and the other Bells are proposing that federal regulators let them offer customers in their region long-distance service.

6.   BellSouth asked federal regulators last month for permission to offer customers in Louisiana long-distance service.

7.   Bell Atlantic is asking regulators for permission to offer its customers in New York long-distance phone service.

8.   Bell South Corp. won the backing of the Louisiana State Public Service Commission for its application to offer customers in the state long-distance telephone service.

9.   A regional Bell telephone company must prove it has met these requirements before it can offer customers in its region long-distance service.

10.   But from time to time, she does like to offer her customer a bit of a challenge.