11.   Drive makers are facing pressure from PC companies to supply low-priced components, while spending heavily on developing the advanced products needed to stay competitive.

12.   Even before the Taiwan quake, analysts said, personal computer makers faced short supplies of hard-disk drives and of flat-panel screens for laptops.

13.   Even the most skeptical analysts do not expect the equipment makers to face the same immediate pressures as their customers.

14.   Euopean paper and pulp makers are facing increasing competition from Asia, as they become more active in the industry.

15.   Game makers are facing some erosion of their markets because of the increasing popularity of personal computers.

16.   He added that the cell-phone makers themselves could face a challenge as demand shifts to low-end, low-margin products.

17.   In the courts, PPA makers faced more than two dozen lawsuits, and usually demanded confidentiality agreements when they settled.

18.   In the courts, PPA makers faced more than two dozen lawsuits, but the cases were not widely publicized because they were usually settled with confidentiality agreements.

19.   In some ways, the Fed policy makers face problems at the beginning of the new decade that generations of their predecessors would have welcomed.

20.   Investors could drive shares of tobacco companies lower amid report that cigarette makers will face a slew of new rules restricting their advertising and marketing practices.