91.   The company attributes this to its heavy weighting toward insuring small businesses, a growing sector that it said is not as competitive as other areas of commercial insurance.

92.   The company has attributed the sales drop in part to increased competition from celebrity news on TV and radio.

93.   The companies attributed feeble growth in premium income to an increase in policy rates and slowing economic growth.

94.   The company attributed its financial performance to budgetary and scheduling problems at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

95.   The company attributed most of its loss to currency fluctuations.

96.   The company attributed that to low prices and difficult market conditions in Japan, Spain and Italy.

97.   The company attributed the cuts to decreased customer demand in telecommunications.

98.   The company attributed the decline primarily to softening demand on its international routes.

99.   The company attributed the decline to charges for foreign-exchange contracts and reorganization at its Sanachem agrochemicals unit.

100.   The company attributed the decline to charges that were taken to write off old equipment and close plants.