21.   Computer-related businesses are growing so fast, they can keep on cutting prices and still make money.

22.   Computer makers, led by Dell Computer Corp., have been cutting prices more steeply than component costs have declined.

23.   Cutting prices?

24.   Cutting prices to compete -- which everyone is almost certain to have to do -- will mean thinner profit margins.

25.   Domestic producers also are cutting prices.

26.   During the second quarter, Intel continued to push faster versions of its flagship Pentium chips into the market by cutting prices.

27.   Fidelity has also aggressively tried to build up its discount brokerage business by cutting prices on electronic trading.

28.   Following a slow start to December sales after five interest rate rises last year shrunk disposable income, retailers enticed shoppers into a late spending spree by cutting prices.

29.   Fuji and Kodak have been cutting prices on film multipacks for several quarters, he said, and Kodak has been losing market share for some time as well.

30.   Gerstner has tried to spur mainframe sales by cutting prices, a move that probably does little harm and may do some good, analysts and investors said.