11.   A few years ago, companies such as Franklin Electronic Publishers began offering dedicated electronic book devices, expecting consumers to buy them by the millions.

12.   A lack of storage space is sometimes cited as a reason for not buying by the case.

13.   A midday spurt of buying by bargain hunters buoyed stock prices, but sellers swamped the buyers at the end of the day.

14.   A specialist in direct-response advertising, he created some of the first commercials intended to prod consumers into buying products by calling or mailing in orders.

15.   After trading lower for most of the day, the contract rebounded in the early afternoon amid buying by roasters, traders said.

16.   After years of white-hot intensity, most recently driven by a media buying frenzy by start-up dot-com companies, the television advertising marketplace is cooling by almost all accounts.

17.   Against the yen, the dollar was little changed amid growing doubts that dollar buying by the Bank of Japan will be enough to drive the U.S. currency higher.

18.   Bucking the declines, LG Electronics Co. rose, mainly on buying by foreign investors, said Kim Chang Hee, an analyst with Seoul Securities Co.

19.   But as several of those companies were themselves bought by Alcatel competitors, the field of potential dance partners quickly narrowed.

20.   But as long as kids keep buying it by the million, it will continue.