1.   Charged that the cable companies had formed an illegal combine for the purpose of keeping rates artificially high.

2.   Analysts expect the Federal Reserve to keep the rate unchanged when its policy makers meet at a Federal Open Market Committee meeting later today.

3.   And to keep the rate low, the commission said a two-thirds supermajority vote in Congress should be required to raise the rate.

4.   And the central bank has kept the rate at which commercial banks lend money to one another just below that.

5.   At the resorts, golf is a magnet for keeping occupancy rates high.

6.   Bank of Japan Gov. Yasuo Matsushita said yesterday the central bank will keep rates at record lows until the economy is back on track.

7.   Bonds gained earlier as Tokyo stocks sank, weighing on the economic outlook and boosting expectations the Bank of Japan will keep rates on hold.

8.   But there the government stepped in to keep poverty rates on a downward path.

9.   Cochrane said forecasts for an economic recovery played a much greater role in keeping rates high.

10.   Earlier today, Bank of Japan Gov. Yasuo Matsushita repeated that the central bank will maintain its policy of keeping rates near record-low levels.