1.  Any rise in interest rates could slow retail sales and the advertising spending by Mexico's department stores and consumer products companies.

2.  Any shortfall in foreign demand for American products can be offset by additional American purchases.

3.  Dense with images and messages, the supermarket is a sort of information rain forest in which products compete for survival.

4.  Dental mercury is regulated only by general FDA labeling rules that apply to all medical products.

5.  Cuba imports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food and other agricultural products, Barnett noted.

6.  CUC International Inc., a catalog marketer of computer and other products, rose 1 1/8 to 26 1/8.

7.  CUC's bread-and-butter is a series of databases that help almost 40 million customers buy products from cars to plane tickets to dinner, mainly over the telephone.

8.  Culbro's roster of products include the White Owl and Garcia Y Vega brands of cigars.

9.  Dermatologists are further concerned that patients are getting the wrong message from antioxidant products.

10.  Degussa, which sells about 78 percent of its products abroad, is among German chemical makers benefiting from the mark's weakness against other major currencies.