41.   Earlier agreements to set prices directly had failed, as production levels continued to exceed customer demand, forcing prices down.

42.   Earlier this year, AOL suffered a public-relations nightmare when its network was overwhelmed by customer demand.

43.   Falconbridge spokesman Joe Laezza declined to say whether the company bought nickel off the commodity market to customer demand.

44.   Falconbridge last week bought an unspecified amount of nickel on the commodity market to satisfy customer demand.

45.   For the company, forced overtime is the most effective way to meet surging, yet unpredictable, customer demand.

46.   Gary Rado, president of Casio in Dover, N.J., said customer demand for the newest Casiopeias far outstripped supply.

47.   He said the most competitive force in the computer industry is not Microsoft, but customer demand.

48.   In pre-announcing products, Microsoft executives said they are simply responding to customer demand for early information on which to plan their technology investments.

49.   In response to customer demands, Allianz said it is applying more risk-related tariffs to price risks individually.

50.   In rural areas, cable companies are less susceptible to customer demand for technological upgrades, he said.