71.   Each potential trade-in is evaluated using a computer print-out price from a special Kelly Blue Book service, so there is no dickering there, either.

72.   Distributors like PCS, called pharmacy benefits managers, give priority status to certain drugs in return for lower prices from the manufacturers.

73.   Earnings benefited from a decline in denim prices from excess inventory at manufacturers, as well as from moves to produce more overseas.

74.   Each side says it exacted the largest price from the other.

75.   Factors such as generation capacity, access to fuels and transmission capabilities affect electricity prices from region to region.

76.   Even with a bigger rig purchased for a discounted price from an oil company, the dry holes continued.

77.   Finally, investors have been more willing than economists to believe that intensified competition can keep prices from climbing as fast as they once did.

78.   Fifth, HMOs, which have failed to win lower prices from drug producers, should support government negotiation with drug makers for statewide discounts.

79.   For years, the government obtained wholesale prices from trade publications like the Red Book, published by Medical Economics, a unit of Thomson Corp.

80.   For the rest of the industry, a combined Farnell and Premier could use size as a lever to win better prices from customers and suppliers.