11.   In the past two months the company bagged a handful of new foreign orders and persuaded the Air Force to accelerate its future purchase plans.

12.   It made no reference to future purchases.

13.   It also may indicate a model for future Coke purchases of small but growing beverage brands.

14.   Often, airlines can get credit toward future purchases by letting delivery dates slip, something that costs Boeing money in the long run.

15.   Once the customer has purchased a product after such an electronic referral, future purchases can also generate a fee to the search engine.

16.   Other retailers offer credit toward future purchases too, including Kmart Corp., which recently rolled out a private-label credit card.

17.   Raytheon also agreed to make an undisclosed amount of future purchases from AGES, which sells aircraft engines and parts and services them.

18.   Still, TCI Chairman John Malone refused to put a cap on future purchases of Time Warner stock.

19.   That index indicated consumers are curtailing some of their plans for future purchases.

20.   The architects of future purchases probably will have similar criteria, analysts said.