A number of industry analysts said that Microsoft, which has traditionally generated little suspense with its product announcements, was trying to steal a page from Apple Computer's playbook by fueling anticipation with secrecy.

The Danish political system has traditionally generated coalitions.

To the Editor: "Stanching the Loss of Good Jobs" (Jan. 31) notes problems with the two methods by which our nation has traditionally generated more jobs: creation of new products and economic growth.

The phrase has traditionally generated little controversy.

It is using both levels to sell, yet because basement space is so much cheaper - and because the east side of Broadway has traditionally generated less pedestrian traffic and thus commands lower rents - its average rent for the entire space is less than $40 a square foot.

The heat for a tandoor was traditionally generated by a charcoal or wood fire, burning within the tandoor itself, thus exposing the food to live-fire, radiant heat cooking, and hot-air, convection cooking, and smoking by the fat and food juices that drip on to the charcoal.

Automated test equipment have traditionally generated a 2-dimensional, ASCII form of the shmoo plot that uses an "X" to represent functional points and blank space for non-functional points.

The pitching moment is traditionally generated by the horizontal stabilizer (and/or canard, if applicable), but with a thrust vectoring nozzle that moment can be agumented by the thrust of the engine.

One sore point is the consumption of electricity, traditionally generated by hydropower but soon to depend more on a fossil fuel, natural gas.

Recession has added to the howls of anguish traditionally generated by the issue.