21.   The company said the crisis hurt its reputation, torpedoed profits and robbed it of the momentum it had gained in becoming a leading seller of PCs in Europe.

22.   The merger makes Honeywell the leading seller of controls and services for pulp and paper plants.

23.   The leading seller of personal finance software and the leading online service provider yesterday announced a partnership to promote electronic banking.

24.   To build its server business, Sun took advantage of its own strengths as the leading seller of workstations.

25.   Compaq Computer Corp. will finish the year as the leading seller of personal computers in the United States, a market research firm said.

26.   Gateway is the leading direct seller of computers to consumers.

27.   It said Met Life, which calls itself the leading seller of life insurance in the nation, began targeting mostly poor, black customers eight decades ago.

28.   The survey on attitudes to finances is conducted each year for the Winnipeg-based Investors Group, a leading seller of retirement savings plans.

29.   Today Subaru is the leading seller of station wagons, just as the long-dormant market shows signs of a modest resurgence.

30.   While Hewlett is the leading seller of such equipment in the United States, analysts said it is unlikely hospitals would replace their monitors just to get the PalmVue.