11.   In some cases the drops have come in response to disappointing earnings.

12.   Moad said the drop came because First Call, a Wall Street news service, reported basic per share earnings rather than diluted earnings.

13.   Nevertheless, the sales tax drop comes at a time of gloomy national forecasts.

14.   That drop in concern came despite an abundance of peers they saw as potential attackers.

15.   The big drop came in a thinly traded contract, and is likely to have little effect on soybean prices in the days and months ahead.

16.   The big drop came when traders mistakenly thought an influential technology analyst had panned the Spokane, Washington-based maker of instruments for reading utility meters.

17.   The big drop may come within a month.

18.   The drop came as investors worried that falling long-term interest rates could reduce earnings of savings and loans.

19.   The drop came as refiners slashed production to focus on heating oil output.

20.   The drop came despite comments by American, Japanese, and German officials in support of the dollar.