11.  Delray Beach, Florida-based Empire, the maker of Big Wheels, also makes seasonal decorative items and buttons.

12.  Curiously, the merchandising push _ now amounting to 35 licensees with 100 items _ comes more than a year after the original movie left multiplexes.

13.  Delta said it earned $79 million, or 60 cents a share, excluding unusual items, in the quarter ended Dec. 31.

14.  Current systems extensively describe items, but do not identify products by their content.

15.  Demand for most other items increased.

16.  Description: Online seller of wine, fine foods, jewelry, and other luxury items.

17.  Designers have come to acknowledge that even their faithful customers are more likely to buy items than a whole outfit in one go.

18.  Despite government orders for price freezes for 60 days, merchants have begun raising prices for many foods and other items.

19.  Curtis said the site "pays for itself" through a little advertising and the sale of some items on the site.

20.  DEM-NOTEBOOK-COX (Chicago) _ Random items from the convention.