1.   It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds... and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year.

2.   But the makers hope it will come to our tv screens and to the cinemas later.

3.   And clone makers are hoping to provide other things that the current Apple market cannot, like better service.

4.   Because auto makers hope customers will lease their vehicles again, their captive finance arms are more likely to ignore signs of routine use.

5.   Beverage makers are hoping to score in the same way, say, that Tommy Hilfiger fashions did.

6.   By shifting their distribution to facilities outside Maine, the drug makers are hoping to avoid this provision.

7.   By then, some car makers hope to use Brazil and Argentina to supply the rest of South America, and perhaps even some Asian or European markets.

8.   In addition to video-on-demand services, cable and computer makers have long hoped that cable subscribers might flock to interactive digital information and shopping services delivered by television.

9.   In raising interest rates, British policy makers hope to temper economic growth by making borrowing more expensive for businesses and consumers.

10.   In the tobacco case, cigarette makers hope to avoid legal questions by having their agreement adopted by Congress as a law.