11.   Anyone selling merchandise with strong brand names is sure to hit, retail experts say, because consumers cannot get enough of names like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein.

12.   As competition increases, consumers get access to more varied services.

13.   Are groceries getting cheaper, or are consumers getting hit harder at the cash register?

14.   As for tying its operating software to a browser, Microsoft argues that doing so is defensible as long as consumers get a better product out of it.

15.   At the time of the recall, the company said consumers could get replacements with adequate doses of epinephrine at no cost at their pharmacies.

16.   Being a disk, it provides random access so that songs can be played in any desired order, a feature consumers have gotten used to from compact disks.

17.   Blumenthal said Monday morning, adding later that he did not oppose the merger, but simply wanted consumers to get their fair share.

18.   Bill Gates may have broken a few eggs while making his omelette, but it was a meal that the consumers got to eat.

19.   Bracken defended the plan, noting that most Northwest consumers get power from investor-owned utilities but benefit little from power produced at publicly owned hydro plants.

20.   A recent study by doctors at the University of Pennsylvania said that it was alarmingly easy for consumers to get prescription drugs without seeing a physician or a pharmacist.