11.   Higher retail inventories, building materials and automobile dealers stocks contributed to the rise in inventories.

12.   Lower retail inventories and automobile dealer stocks in January held down the rise in inventories.

13.   Northbrook, Illinois-based Mercury Finance purchases installment-sale contracts and financing contracts from automobile dealers and provides short-term installment loans to consumers.

14.   Nissan automobile dealer Carlos Lozano said the credit crunch is the latest in a series of blows threatening his once-prosperous dealership in Nuevo Laredo.

15.   Northbrook, Illinois-based Mercury purchases installment-sale contracts and financing contracts from automobile dealers and provides short-term installment loans to consumers.

16.   Some automobile dealers are also offering XM Radio as an original equipment option.

17.   That year, automobile dealer Bud Selig, who is now the baseball commissioner, bought the Seattle Pilots, moved them to Milwaukee and renamed them the Brewers.

18.   The explosion that afternoon of gasoline spilling from a pipe owned by Olympic Pipe Line Co. started automobile dealer King on a campaign for reform.

19.   The Southfield-based company provides funding to automobile dealers.

20.   The witness said he was in the area because he got lost looking for an automobile dealer.