21.   Medicaid typically pays the retail price for drugs, but in effect it gets a discount because manufacturers must pay rebates to the government.

22.   My infatuation with tobacco almost might have made sense had the cigarette manufacturers been paying me in direct proportion to my standing on the smog alert scale.

23.   One reason is the annual checks, some totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, that are their share of what manufacturers pay the buying groups.

24.   Reinforcing evidence of a robust economy and nearly nonexistent inflation, the government reported that prices paid by manufacturers posted the biggest decline in nearly four years last month.

25.   Some manufacturers are even paying television networks to broadcast HDTV.

26.   Sporting-goods manufacturers are paying closer attention to physiological differences than they have in the past.

27.   Southeastern manufacturers are paying their suppliers lower prices this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said.

28.   The drive manufacturers also pay a royalty to music publishers.

29.   The indexes both for prices paid by manufacturers to their suppliers and those charged to customers declined this month from December.

30.   The manufacturers will pay for the reviews, then turn the information over to the agency for approval.