11.   Analysts tended to agree with that assessment.

12.   At investment banks, analysts tend to burn the midnight oil in the home office instead.

13.   But financial analysts have tended to exclude the Delphi figures, viewing the spinoff as a splitting of GM rather than the closing of a subsidiary.

14.   But private analysts tend to agree with the Clinton administration that the economy may have already bottomed out, with excess inventories now pared enough to spark resumed growth.

15.   Given an expected fall in interest rates, analysts tend to focus on markets with a high component of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

16.   Industry analysts tend to agree.

17.   Industry analysts tend to be optimistic.

18.   Military analysts tend to describe the evolution of Army war-fighting philosophy in sports terms.

19.   Most analysts tend to rule out any unconstitutional moves by Yeltsin, who, they point out, is acutely mindful of his historical legacy.

20.   Over all, private analysts tended to combine the April results with those of preceding months in concluding that the economy was showing solid but not runaway growth.