41.   Housing starts, department store sales, and sales of major home appliances have all remained below year-earlier levels since the tax increase.

42.   If the stock price remains below the exercise price, the options will be worthless, but employees would not need to use them.

43.   Import sales remain far below expectations.

44.   If eastern German wages and benefits had remained far below those in western Germany, the most skilled residents would have simply flooded westward.

45.   In both states, student achievement is rising even while per-pupil spending remains below the national average.

46.   In the Northeast, temperatures will remain below seasonal as a jet stream disturbance promotes variable clouds.

47.   Instead, when he sinks back into the soft-cushioned couch, his knees remain just below chest level.

48.   Instead, Komtek will submit documents showing that its discharge remains below state limits.

49.   Markets in other countries, and for smaller stocks in this country, remain far below their peaks of earlier this year.

50.   Meanwhile, most stocks remain far below record levels.