41.   Credit analysts are concerned that the financial health of New York is too closely tied to the stock market, whose rally is now in its seventh year.

42.   David R. Webb, executive vice president at Shaker Investments in Cleveland, said stock market rallies were unlikely to be sustainable in the current economic climate.

43.   Davenport and Halard-Decugis are power players, so their rallies typically were fast.

44.   Even the bulls concede that the recent rally is probably unsustainable.

45.   Extremist rallies have been increasingly virulent.

46.   Ex-Mariner Darren Bragg doubled, and the rally was on.

47.   Even so, the rally could be short-lived.

48.   For health care investors, the post-election rally was just one more piece of good news in a year that has brought almost nothing but good news.

49.   For seven innings, there were no rallies, no moments when it appeared Jones or Martinez was in jeopardy of losing control.

50.   For the uninitiated, monster truck rallies are events in which huge trucks with huge tires race against each other as they leap over buses and cars.