61.   Consumers should begin seeing the changes in their July statements.

62.   Consumers were just beginning to feel the effects.

63.   Consumers are now beginning to question whether their selected appliances are properly guaranteed.

64.   Consumers should begin to live within their means.

65.   If U.S.-Japan auto talks fail this week and Washington goes ahead with threatened sanctions, Japanese consumers may soon begin missing American farm products.

66.   In parts of Britain, consumers were beginning to see meat shortages in supermarkets after a weeklong ban on the movement of livestock.

67.   It is, then, assumed that once consumers begin to perceive the Internet as a secure environment for buying and selling, online shopping will explode.

68.   It will take as much as a decade before consumers begin to notice drops in price on such highly protected items as textiles.

69.   Kennard declined to speculate on when consumers might begin to sample the new sounds.

70.   The sector often is one of the first to benefit after interest rates are lowered and consumers begin to spend more freely.