11.   A customer can choose a vehicle and select options now, of course, but must then wait weeks or months for delivery.

12.   Both the California rules and competing federal policy would let telephone customers choose whether to have their numbers displayed on Caller ID-equipped phones.

13.   But Bluestein added that consumer-oriented on-line services like America Online will inevitably fade as more customers choose to connect directly to the Internet.

14.   But customers can also choose between several hundred other long-distance carriers.

15.   Compaq is calling the overall program Customer Choice,emphasizing that customers can choose to buy the machines directly, or through traditional resellers.

16.   Customers can choose fabric and details.

17.   Customers can choose from a dizzying array of frozen french fries in cuts from shoestring to crinkle to curly.

18.   Customers may choose to stop getting paper bills sent by mail, although they will receive an e-mail notice about bills they have not yet looked at.

19.   Customers then choose a room based on preferences and provide other directions.

20.   Customers will choose their supplier or generator.