21.   Also Tuesday, the Conference Board, a business research group, reported that the Index of Leading Indicators rose strongly in February.

22.   Americans continued to lose confidence in the economy in February, displaying more pessimism than they had in well over four years, a research group reported on Tuesday.

23.   Although she loved analysis and mathematics, she had a strong desire to have a greater impact on the decision making and direction of the research group.

24.   An analysis of the budget office study released Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research group, reached a similar conclusion.

25.   Analysts from several Wall Street research groups had forecast a decline in consumer confidence rather than a gain.

26.   And an IBM research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., will report the fastest CMOS transistor ever.

27.   An economic research group cautions that a rush to reduce electric rates by making the utility industry competitive could backfire if supply shortages occur.

28.   And just hours before the Fed announced its decision Tuesday, the Conference Board, a business research group, reported that consumer confidence fell sharply in September.

29.   And several research groups are developing vaccines that have already worked in mice.

30.   And it declined for the third straight month in a row in December surveys conducted by the Conference Board, a private research group in New York.