31.   Both Gartner and Dataquest provide research and analysis of computers, software and other information technology, but they serve different customers.

32.   A cable company can invest its money, invent the technology, develop new products and services and serve its customers.

33.   A federal law requires funeral homes to serve customers even if they have bought coffins elsewhere.

34.   A major aim was to subsidize phone service in rural areas, where it costs far more to serve customers than in cities.

35.   About a dozen other companies have authorization to serve residential customers in Texas, although not all have aggressively marketed in the state.

36.   Actually serving customers rather than expecting them to smile wanly at jammed Web sites, back-ordered products and paying their own return postage.

37.   According to a contributor to the groups misc.consumers and misc.consumers.house, Sears continues to do its famously excellent work serving its customers.

38.   According to The New York Times, executives involved in the deal said Borders will be closing its struggling online store and will have Amazon.com serve its customers instead.

39.   After six months in the brothel, serving several customers per day, Monika was set free by a police raid.

40.   Agility, say its proponents, means American manufacturers will be better able to serve customers and to remain globally competitive.