31.   An appeals court is set to hear the case in late February and is expected to rule in the early spring.

32.   AMR is expected to report later.

33.   An international jury of yachting judges, yet to be named, is expected to rule on the impasse, but not for at least a month.

34.   Analysts said the mining shares are also expected to profit from the growing global demand for electronics parts which use their metals.

35.   And given how much home viewing habits are expected to change, both Eisner and Hightower argue that inexperience in the ways of the past should be no liability.

36.   And he is expected to compromise with congressional Republicans on higher immigration quotas for highly skilled professionals.

37.   And just how deep the Dodgers push into the postseason is expected to hinge almost entirely on that asset.

38.   And prices here are expected to muscle higher from their current record levels for another year or more.

39.   And perhaps worst of all, mom-and-pop production is expected to increase as people seek to supplement incomes selling homegrown chickens on the side.

40.   And the Revolution are expected to next week audition JoJo, a Mozambican wing midfielder whose full name is Jorge Miguel Moreira Larrouy Fernandes.