1.   Angry taxi drivers responded by boycotting a planned workshop on treating customers courteously.

2.   In the real world of business, Marketing and sales people do not treat customers as resistors.

3.   In effect, the indirect customer is normally treated as a direct customer instead of the intermediary.

4.   Although the major U.S. airlines pledged last year to treat customers better, complaints about commercial jet service has soared.

5.   Any other enterprise that treats its customers the way baseball has for the past two decades would have been out of business for at least a decade.

6.   As a result, the NASD said, the customers were treated unfairly.

7.   Attorneys representing some policyholders objected to the plan, saying it provided for insufficient compensation or that it would treat customers in some states better than those in others.

8.   A company without serious competition can trot out a take-it-or-leave-it offering, raising prices at will, treating customers with disdain.

9.   But rather than basing coverage decisions on price alone, the advocates advise people to talk with friends and insurance regulators to learn how different companies treat customers.