21.   Political analysts tend to forget him in their prognostications.

22.   Private analysts tend to cast a skeptical eye on the quarterly productivity figures, because they are often subject to fairly dramatic revision.

23.   Professional financial analysts tend to melt before Buffett and Greenberg, too.

24.   Retail analysts tend to be more hopeful about the group.

25.   Spellman also said analysts tend to cover companies they believe will make good investments for their clients, which explains the high proportion of buy recommendations.

26.   The analysts tend to be people with MBA degrees and a knack for qualitative analysis, or veterans of the industries they track.

27.   The company has maintained that few investors realized how valuable the stock was because transportation analysts tend to focus on the railroad and not its substantial financial services operations.

28.   Wall Street analysts tend to focus only on those stocks that have already taken off.

29.   A day later, analysts tended to attribute the victory to inertia rather than to a last-minute burst of affection for the government.

30.   Analysts tended to view the infant regional Bell companies warily, unsure of whether they would be able to compete in the fast-evolving telecommunications business.