21.   After decades of losing customers to malls, superstores and then the Internet, independent bookstores may be getting up off the mat.

22.   But evidence is growing that Chrysler is losing customers for high-profit sport utility vehicles, one of its lucrative market segments, to GM and Ford.

23.   But Brinker lost customers as a result of the decreased service, and is only now winning back business, Elliott said.

24.   But industry analyst Jill Frankle of International Data Corp. in New York thinks AOL risks losing customers to other Internet providers who hold the line on prices.

25.   But most printers worry that they will lose many customers by leaving Manhattan.

26.   But the regional Bell phone companies, fearful of losing customers, are not sitting still.

27.   But the strike caused UPS to lose customers to other delivery companies.

28.   Cable continues to lose customers to satellite TV.

29.   Charitable operators, losing bingo customers to casinos and mini-casinos, now want their own electronic games.

30.   Charles A. Boorady, an analyst at Prudential Securities, said Apria had been losing customers to its closest competitor, Lincare Holdings.