1.   And that alone may be what is propelling the loyalty programs for now.

2.   -- Relationship cards, through which banks or other issuers can offer clients several products using microchips and may include some form of loyalty programs.

3.   Alan Gunshor, chief executive of Passpoints.com, a company that runs an online loyalty program, works from his apartment in San Francisco.

4.   Both are based in San Francisco and sell loyalty marketing programs to Web sites and some offline customers.

5.   Dozens of baseball stadiums now have database-driven fan loyalty programs that reward frequent ballpark visitors for attending games and buying refreshments and merchandise.

6.   Free Ride is by no means the only loyalty program being cooked up for the Web.

7.   GM has announced that it will not renew its customer loyalty program.

8.   Growth could also be driven by loyalty programs for gas stations and airlines, he added.

9.   Hanson also suggested that travelers who participated in hotel company loyalty programs stood a better chance of obtaining an upgrade than those who did not.

10.   He created the constitutionally loathsome loyalty program in the face of an internal communist threat that existed largely in the manipulative mind of the blithering Joseph McCarthy.