51.   In a May survey, Jupiter Communications Inc., the Internet consulting firm, found that Internet customers were slowly growing less price-sensitive.

52.   In just two years, their number has doubled, according to Cerulli Associates, a Boston consulting firm for the financial services industry.

53.   In January, the company acquired Eggrock Partners, a Concord consulting firm with a similar mission.

54.   In the past year, the U.S. consulting firm had seen scores of its employees join Argentine Internet start-ups.

55.   Instead, the state Transportation Board dipped into a pool of federal planning dollars to hire the Phoenix consulting firm of Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.

56.   It was masterminded by Triad, a D.C. consulting firm headed by a former Ollie North fund-raiser and Lyn Nofziger.

57.   Jim Rawitsch, a managing director with the Aberdeen Group, a Boston consulting firm, noted that Lucent had warned of looming layoffs as far back as September.

58.   Karl Boettcher, vice president of Global Aviation Research, a Phoenix consulting firm, notes that the carrier is among the worst for on-time arrivals.

59.   Kent Novell, vice president of Access Research Inc., a benefits consulting firm in Windsor, Conn., said concerns about security were overblown.

60.   Last week, a manufacturing consulting firm ranked the Claycomo facility as among the most productive when compared to other domestic auto plants.