21.   The companies have also been fending off price discounts demanded by some health maintenance organizations and other managed-care buyers, analysts said.

22.   The cards attempt to aggregate customers into a buying block with sufficient leverage to negotiate price discounts from pharmacies and manufacturers.

23.   The lower price discounts and continued cost-cutting helped profitability for all three companies.

24.   The pressure comes from large discount stores that can offer deeper price discounts on commercial books by top-selling authors like John Grisham and Tom Clancy.

25.   The problem stemmed, in part, from too many memory chips in the market and deep price discounts by the makers of personal computers.

26.   The state offers a price discount and credit terms to retail buyers who are citizens or residents.

27.   These days, all hospitals are buffeted by managed care companies demanding deep price discounts and a drop in government reimbursements.

28.   These promotions do not come at the expense of price discounts, but they offer limited benefits to a consumer.

29.   Under the Maine RX program, drug manufacturers are induced, by means they say are coercive, to subsidize retail price discounts to state residents.

30.   When railroads refused the company the price discounts it wanted, Archer-Daniels shunted business to its own barge operations until the railroads caved in.