31.   Most major manufacturers now offer lower-cost models pitched as consumer products.

32.   Most manufacturers also offer ranches, Cape Cods, split-levels and contemporaries, usually in several different designs, and sell their homes through authorized builders.

33.   Most manufacturers offer telephone or online assistance for their customers, but you usually have to register to qualify for help.

34.   Most milk paint manufacturers also offer a sealer for their products that is water based and solvent free.

35.   Now, with home computers becoming almost as common as TVs, many big-time furniture manufacturers are offering home-office lines.

36.   Often drug manufacturers offer combinations of their more popular antihistamines with a decongestant.

37.   One reason for the early interest in snowmobiles is that all four major manufacturers offer preseason discounts, Macchiarella said.

38.   Other automobile manufacturers offer a similar range of discounts and perks.

39.   Other manufacturers offer similar complaints about the stinging effect of weaker currencies abroad.

40.   Profiled are a host of new models, offered by manufacturers who have targeted families who want to have fun in their driving.