41.   Advertisers have an inventory of fresh commercials and probably will keep some older spots on the air longer while the walkout continues, McGuinn said.

42.   Cell phone manufacturers slowed chip purchases both because they had high inventories to work off and because they detected slowing demand for their phones, Slaymaker said.

43.   He said the world had ample inventories of crude oil and gasoline.

44.   Management said it has enough inventory to make up for the two-day work stoppage.

45.   The government said the strike would not hurt manufacturing industries, most of which already have large inventories of unsold goods.

46.   USEC spokesman Charles Yulish said Friday the company has an inventory of low-enriched uranium, so U.S. power plants will not be left without a supply.

47.   Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi Motors have inventories in the United States for about one month of sales there.