21.   If you believe the banks, the driving force behind most changes in banking is consumer preference.

22.   In all its markets, U.S. Healthcare has added new doctors and hospitals to its networks, responding to a clear consumer preference for broad choice.

23.   In terms of consumer preference, we have a pretty strong brand, perhaps the second strongest brand on the consumer level, second only to Coca-Cola.

24.   Q. How does the population migration from large cities to suburbs and smaller cities affect consumer preferences?

25.   Since then, Floresheim has been targeting the growing consumer preference for casual and dress casual footwear.

26.   Shifting consumer preferences may have less to do with which type of loan is a better deal than with which direction rates are headed.

27.   Tele-Communications Inc., a Turner Broadcasting shareholder and the largest cable operator, recently commissioned a confidential study on consumer preferences.

28.   The mixes have been reformulated through the years to reflect consumer preferences.

29.   The Siemens plant will initially make four telephone models that will span the high- and low-end of consumer preferences, Wei said.

30.   The transaction follows sluggish sales in the home furnishings business and the consumer preference for bargain-hunting, which have hurt industry profits in recent years.