51.   Postmaster General Marvin Runyon has said the Postal Service has to reduce labor costs and boost productivity to prevent the defection of major customers.

52.   San Jose-based Akashic, which makes disks for disk drives, said major customers have reduced production and cut orders for its products.

53.   Robinson Nugent blamed lower purchases by a major customer, declining prices and product-development expenses.

54.   Silicon Graphics executives said the new products, which will be announced next month, had prompted major customers to defer purchases and caused an oversupply of existing machines.

55.   So far, Diba has lined up only a few major customers.

56.   Stanton in prepared remarks said the merged company will be better positioned than either company alone to offer service to major customers like large corporations.

57.   Still, the strike did force one major customer, United Airlines, to temporarily cancel two international routes after the delivery of planes was delayed.

58.   Suppliers hate to alienate such a major customer.

59.   Surprisingly, Motorola announced only one major customer for Streamaster at CES.

60.   The Beverly, Mass. company also has a major customer in hand.