11.   Capital Cities also spurred Disney to launch a stock repurchase to bolster its earnings per share, analysts said.

12.   By having the flexibility to cut bonuses when performance is poor, they have another tool to bolster their earnings.

13.   Chase Manhattan has bolstered its earnings recently by diversifying its traditional banking business and trying to build a strong investment banking practice.

14.   Declining borrowing costs can bolster company earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders, making equities more attractive than fixed-income securities to many investors.

15.   DuPont disclosed the talks on the same day it announced steps to bolster earnings.

16.   Enderlin and others hung up wondering whether Xerox would try to bolster earnings with more job cuts or a stock buy-back.

17.   Even with slowing PC sales forecast for the next few months, investors expect new versions of Windows NT networking and corporate software to bolster earnings in coming quarters.

18.   Falling newsprint prices also bolstered its earnings from newspapers.

19.   For its part, Sumitomo said it is acting to bolster earnings.