1.   Apple has a powerful brand, fanatically faithful customers, and technology that the rest of the computer industry is only now catching up with.

2.   But Mark Badgley and James Mischka know better than to alienate their faithful customers who want to glitter a bit at night.

3.   Designers have come to acknowledge that even their faithful customers are more likely to buy items than a whole outfit in one go.

4.   Last week, hundreds of faithful customers, some with tears in their eyes, poured in on closing day to pay their last respects.

5.   That news may make some faithful customers feel a little ancient themselves.

6.   These faithful customers are expected to be the key to luring advertisers, although the formula for getting ad revenue is still evolving.

7.   Throughout even its darkest days, though, lawyers have been faithful customers of WorkPerfect.

8.   To faithful customers, the brands are as familiar as Nike or Liz Claiborne.

9.   And lucky is the man who in turn is a faithful Armani customer.

10.   French automakers are also to blame for the parallel imports because they charge higher prices to faithful customers at home.