31.   Baybanks has long been the most obvious acquisition for Bank of Boston, which has lagged in serving the consumer market.

32.   Before acquiring MCI, Worldcom served hardly any residential customers, and none of the top former Worldcom executives seem particularly enthusiastic about consumer markets now.

33.   Before its purchase by General Electric, RCA had pulled back from the consumer electronics market after the failure of its video disk player.

34.   Bloomberg is not the only provider of professional financial information that is gambling on the consumer market.

35.   Both Intel Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. are planning to serve their computer technologies to a broader consumer market through technology-themed restaurants and coffee shops.

36.   Both those units, however, are geared to business customers, and it is unclear how MCI Worldcom means to make a big splash in local consumer markets.

37.   Accordingly, some producers have opted out of the consumer computer market altogether.

38.   Advances that drug laboratories are making in AIDS treatment have raised the possibility that a population that has carried a death sentence can be turned into a consumer market.

39.   After failing in the broader consumer market, Apple offered the Newton for specialized business, medical and educational applications, with limited success.

40.   AIG has tried to enter the US consumer market in the past by building its own sales network and by buying other firms.