1.   A glut of used cars and wary consumers are working to keep a lid on the prices of new vehicles, said Comerica economist Littmann.

2.   But like other entrepreneurs, Hicks finds that bucking entrenched interests, skeptical bureaucrats and wary consumers is a monumental task.

3.   If enough wary consumers curtail their usual spending, it could send an already reeling economy over the edge into a deep recession, analysts say.

4.   One trick to enticing wary consumers is to present furniture that looks comfortably familiar but transcends its regularity with a subtle shock of the new.

5.   Pioneer Hi-Bred and other companies developing transgenic seeds face resistance from wary consumers and international customers.

6.   Reducing unemployment is considered an essential plank of recovery, with German consumers too wary about job security to spend freely.

7.   Sales of new single-family homes fell in November for the fourth straight month even as mortgage interest rates declined, suggesting wary consumers are holding off on big purchases.

8.   The ultimate product, therefore, is dismissed by wary political consumers as nothing more than prepackaged rhetoric.

9.   They cited wary consumers, a poor housing market and reorganization in the industry as the primary causes.

10.   U.S. construction spending unexpectedly rebounded during April, suggesting builders are confident that lower mortgage rates will pull wary consumers back into the market for housing.