41.   Another service launched yesterday by e-commerce heavyweight Priceline.com allows users to name their own price at the pump.

42.   As a result, some Pentagon buyers accept catalog prices at face value and run up millions of dollars in excess costs.

43.   As a result, say many smaller vending-machine owners and distribution companies, a bottler can raise prices at will and otherwise dictate the terms of business.

44.   As the higher prices at the pump will show, they have failed to satisfy that obligation.

45.   At a time when investors are so uncertain about the direction of interest rates, such reports and speculation can move prices more than at other times.

46.   At some of the companies, asset attrition and even the collapse of some affiliates have gone hand in hand with soaring stock prices at the parent companies.

47.   BAA guarantees that prices at the Airmall will be no higher than in other malls.

48.   Bacon supplies in storage unexpectedly shrank during April, government figures showed, pointing to rising prices at the beginning of the peak demand season.

49.   Banks must report losses on stocks and bonds when market prices are lower than the purchase price at the end of the business year.

50.   Barden was examining mini-audio systems and comparing the prices at Circuit City and the Wiz, the chain in the New York-area chain.