21.   By keeping customers from going elsewhere for parts, PSI said, Honeywell tried to stifle competition from independent companies that service high-tech equipment.

22.   Companies have tried to use legal mechanisms to keep their customers under tight rein, but that has never succeeded.

23.   Compounding all the problems was fare-cutting by the ferries, which developed advertising, new marketing strategies and new luxury boats to keep customers.

24.   Despite public controversy over power struggles and the clash of cultures between the NationsBank and the old BofA, the bank has kept more customers than expected.

25.   Electronics retailers, eager to keep scarce customers from turning elsewhere, are discounting even strong-selling products.

26.   Even so, providing Internet services could help keep customers from jumping to a competitor, analysts said.

27.   For service providers, the trick will be to distinguish themselves as either fun or functional enough to attract and keep customers.

28.   Heavy post-Christmas sales also kept customers coming in well after the holiday was over.

29.   He said in an interview that small pharmacists would be forced to offer more services, such as health advice, to attract and keep customers.

30.   His most active supporter is Serico Internet Services, a Berlin company that provides Internet access and has complained that high telephone charges are keeping customers away.