31.   The manufacturing sector, which is a big user of energy, has been particularly hard hit.

32.   The slowdown is expected to result in the cancellation of construction projects and weaker demand for household appliances, big users of copper.

33.   The stocks fell as investors bet that demand from automakers and other big users of chemicals will fall.

34.   The tax is paid both by consumers and big corporate users such as banks, insurance companies and mutual fund companies.

35.   Their basic strategy is to give price breaks to keep big industrial users that might otherwise move elsewhere or, after deregulation, buy elsewhere.

36.   Trading companies arrange sales between natural gas and electricity producers and big users as well as sell their own fuel and power.

37.   While marketers prefer big industrial users, some have gone out on the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., soliciting mom-and-pop businesses like restaurants and dry cleaners.

38.   Would big users like manufacturers and shopping malls reap all the benefits of competition while homeowners see rising rates?

39.   Big users, such as factories, found they could negotiate better prices.

40.   Now big users of recycled plastic are pleading for new sources of material.