11.  Currently, most data is confined to a storage unit attached to a single type of computer, making it difficult to share information.

12.  Currently, scientific labs charge industry as much as $50,000 to sample smokestack emissions for a week and analyze the data.

13.  Currently, special transmitters that allow laptop computers to communicate with a wireless data network cost more than $800.

14.  Currently, the most widely used PCI moves data across 32 parallel wires with a total maximum bandwidth of 133 megabits per second.

15.  Currently, three information services have been approved by the government to act as data repositories: Bloomberg Financial Markets, Kenny Information Services and The Bond Buyer.

16.  DESKTOP-DATA (Burlington, Massachusetts) -- Desktop Data shares plummet after it said revenue growth will slow and margins will narrow in 1997.

17.  Despite a glitch in transmitting some flight data, Higgins said the test flight was "near flawless."

18.  Democratic strategists suggested the polling data could prod Gore out of Clinton's shadow sooner than planned.

19.  Customers then would have the right to demand that their private data be deleted from those sales.

20.  Custom-made for United, the equipment is battery-powered and has access to the carrier's data base by radio frequency.