31.   Customers can choose to stay with their local utility.

32.   Customers can even choose from three stamps, including a reindeer Christmas stamp.

33.   Customers chose Beringer, Ferrari-Carano and Meridian as their favorite white wine producers.

34.   Customers could choose, by selecting an option, to receive marketing messages from other companies.

35.   Electricity sales to U.S. customers are expected to be deregulated over the next few years, letting customers choose their own power suppliers for the first time.

36.   Electricity sales to U.S. consumers are expected to be deregulated over the next few years, allowing customers to choose their own power suppliers for the first time.

37.   Even though there are few places where customers can choose between cable companies for television, industry officials say that cable is in a competitive situation.

38.   Federal law already required cable operators to provide lockboxes that will totally block out any channel a customer chooses.

39.   Governor Pete Wilson is expected to sign legislation later this month that will end the monopolies of large utilities by allowing residential and commercial customers to choose their supplier.

40.   He said allowing customers to choose a gas supplier also was encouraged by the Iowa regulatory board.