11.   After RCA sells its quota, Sony will be allowed to join in, so consumers can choose between DSS systems from the two consumer electronics giants.

12.   Both options are driven by consumer demand, Gates insisted, and consumers can also choose to buy these options from a different company if they like.

13.   But Tom Ward, president of Russell Stover Candies in Kansas City, said most consumers still choose customary items such as jelly beans or chocolate bunnies.

14.   Congress this year is expected to deregulate power sales, letting consumer choose their power suppliers in much the same way they currently choose long-distance telephone providers.

15.   Consumers should then choose investments with care.

16.   Consumers could then choose power suppliers as they now do long-distance telephone companies.

17.   Consumers will then choose power suppliers as they now do long-distance telephone service.

18.   Consumers then could choose their electricity suppliers.

19.   Consumers would then choose power suppliers, as they do a long-distance telephone service.

20.   Deregulation will allow consumers to choose from competing electric service providers, much like telephone service today.