21.   Policy makers did so reluctantly, however, knowing that under the theory of the educational marketplace, there was no justification for direct intervention.

22.   So what have European computer makers been doing wrong?

23.   Someday there will be a tobacco settlement, because President Bill Clinton wants one and so do cigarette makers.

24.   Still, the auto makers are not doing everything on their own.

25.   The big PC makers are doing the same.

26.   The assumption, though, is that German policy makers will do all they can to keep the single currency project alive.

27.   The fight parallels what the big drug makers have been doing in many poor nations to protect their exclusive rights to sell high-priced AIDS medicines.

28.   The data provided no clear signal of what Federal Reserve policy makers will do when they meet next week to determine whether to raise interest rates.

29.   The idea of the government monitoring what a software maker does and regulating what it incorporates into its products seems like unwarranted intrusion to many.

30.   The Mercedes suppliers in Alabama do much of the assembly of dashboards and other large components, which most auto makers do in their own plants.