11.   Boston had also gone through a spate of fat-trimming hospital mergers, closings and cost cutting in recent years.

12.   Bundesbank council member Guntram Palm told Bloomberg Business News following the state CPI reports he doubted a rate cut in the short-term.

13.   Bundesbank council members have dropped repeated hints of a rate cut in recent weeks, saying future moves would hinge on money supply and inflation trends.

14.   But Greenspan did not see any substantial threat of a recession, and although he continued to cut rates in subsequent months, he did so in small steps.

15.   But it has eased somewhat in recent months, leading many analysts to predict a rate cut in August.

16.   But no one insists on considering the many ways that government spending might be better than a tax cut in bringing Americans greater well-being in the decade ahead.

17.   But some analysts fear that even if Greenspan cuts interest rates in coming months, it may not help this situation.

18.   But the gain was cut in half the next day when the company issued a second news release clarifying the results.

19.   But then the Reign, who had filled the lanes and were cutting in the third quarter, began to loiter.

20.   Chilean stocks rose Thursday and Friday on optimism interest rates could be cut in coming weeks.