I think onerous taxes would be nice, and severe limitations on the kinds of places where companies can peddle their products and place seductive advertising.

Of course, AT&T has a commercial motive to publish these results, since the company peddles text messaging plans with all of its cellular voice packages.

Even with an average of 200 sales a day, the company simply couldn't peddle enough plastic to keep going.

To lure them in Japan, for example, the company peddles Budweiser clothing and other products on the Web, and hands out free samples in bars.

The company peddles brand-name goods like Day-Glo fluorescent paints and Rust-Oleum, the rust preventive that many homeowners swear by.

Pinning its hopes on rising stolen car rates, the company installs free tracking equipment at police stations and then peddles small homing devices to motorists.

Trading standards officers were called in to investigate the way the company peddled its 'call waiting' service.

But when he went to record companies to peddle the songs he wrote "people told me, 'The heck with the songs, you should record yourself.' "

The company has also taken its parties into the workplace and is peddling its containers in catalogues.

In essence, he was asking the macho engineers and finance types who held sway at the auto maker to start marketing cars the way other companies peddled cookies.