21.   In the future, the company will bank on its new game console Xbox and its MSN Internet services to help withstand the PC slump.

22.   Sato has said that in hindsight Sega should have abandoned Dreamcast earlier, but the company had banked on U.S. Christmas sales in the United States.

23.   Mobile phone companies are banking on customers spending more on services as markets reach saturation point and growth through subscriber recruitment no longer becomes possible.

24.   Most analysts said the Jacksonville jury decision has little chance of standing up in a court of appeals, a view tobacco companies are banking on.

25.   The company is banking on name recognition and its marketing services to ease its entry onto the local scene.