1.   Aside from the brisk back-to-school business, retailers and analysts said favorable weather and a generally healthy economy contributed to the strong results.

2.   Energy companies have said cooler weather and other factors played a role.

3.   Hofmans, who had thought about entering River Flyer, said the weather kept the colt out of training.

4.   Myers said mild weather and an unexpected loss of coal supply for a power plant lowered earnings in the year-earlier period.

5.   Other retailers said good weather and fresh merchandise enticed shoppers.

6.   Ryan said better weather and more cooperation between the airlines and the FAA had reduced delays.

7.   Still, traders said weather and disease problems could result in a smaller Colombian crop than the federation forecast.

8.   They said weather and poor runway conditions were responsible for the incident.

9.   Australian Broadcasting Corp. said weather problems forced the flight to return, and then the pilot radioed that he was having mechanical problems.

10.   Corn and soybeans, before rebounding late in the session, sank when meteorologists said the weather would be mostly dry in the Midwest this week.