41.   The company faces no direct competition, although Tate notes that the DRAM makers are trying to come up with their own standard.

42.   The film becomes dull, even though the film makers try hard to turn this into an action-adventure story.

43.   The equipment makers are trying to oblige.

44.   The makers did not try to put too much on the page by crowding it with small print, and they kept extraneous art off the screen.

45.   The gun makers have tried to insulate themselves from responsibility by selling guns only to wholesalers who then sell to retail dealers, he said.

46.   The planned merger comes during afrenzy of big food company combinations, in which food makers are trying to bolster their growth prospects through acquisitions and global power plays.

47.   The push by Microsoft comes as the growth rate of the existing home-computer market has begun to slow and PC makers try to find new opportunities.

48.   The result was a price war, as modem makers tried to overcome buyer resistance with a relentless campaign of markdowns.

49.   The terminal makers are trying to sidestep the Java-Windows battle by making their machines compatible with both.

50.   To increase productivity, makers are trying to increase the size of the wafer while shrinking the size of the chip.