Lilly said worldwide pharmaceutical sales and services rose 20 percent, to $1.495 billion, in the quarter.

Japan is justifiably famous for elaborate courtesy, but at the Okura, service rises to the level of an art form.

While product sales fell to $1.9 billion from $2 billion, service and other revenue rose 16 percent, to $1.3 billion, the computer maker said.

Travel products and services rose to 6th place from 14th.

The purpose is organize services to rise money for pro-bono causes.

Consumer expenditures on goods and services rose at an annual rate of 2.6 percent, up slightly from the second quarter.

To fund this, services that the poor use will rise in price.

For the fourth quarter, financial services operating income rose 89.3 percent, to $101 million, compared with $54 million for the corresponding period of 1991.

Commodities climbed six-tenths of 1 percent in March, while services rose five-tenths, today's report also showed.

Measured in total miles traveled, service rose by about 84 percent over three years.