51.   On Friday, the Labor Department said prices paid by manufacturers for raw materials remained flat in April.

52.   Such agreements required the manufacturers to pay a royalty to Microsoft for every computer they shipped even if they used operating software from another company.

53.   That qualified them for the rebates that pharmaceutical manufacturers pay the state for people enrolled in Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for the poor.

54.   The auto manufacturer will pay for AIDS drugs for employees in South Africa.

55.   The manufacturer paid for the study.

56.   Weaving suppliers have already demanded that manufacturers pay up-front for any raw material purchases and no longer extend credit as they need liquidity to maintain their operations.

57.   In a historic reversal of decades of tobacco industry policy, the agreement constituted the first time a cigarette manufacturer has paid to settle a smoking lawsuit.

58.   In a historic reversal of decades of tobacco industry policy, the agreement constitutes the first time a cigarette manufacturer has paid to settle a smoking lawsuit.

59.   The company had basically required manufacturers to pay royalties for all the personal computers they produced even if they were not equipped with Microsoft systems, MS-DOS and Windows.

60.   The manufacturers pay a royalty on every machine they sell.