51.   Profit expectations have come down markedly, without dampening investor enthusiasm.

52.   Planned for key battleground states, the town hall meetings are designed to dampen enthusiasm for Bush among rank and file union members.

53.   Questions about corporate profits also dampened market enthusiasm.

54.   Rising Treasury bond yields and the scuttling of what was expected to be the largest merger ever dampened enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday.

55.   Sharon McDougal of Long Beach, Calif., said paying sales tax would not dampen her enthusiasm for mail order shopping.

56.   So far, these concerns have not dampened French enthusiasm for the NATO attack.

57.   Something good would come of this, however, if it were to dampen network enthusiasm for other so-called reality shows.

58.   Some statisticians have raised their eyebrows at this strategy, but that has not always dampened enthusiasm for it among customers.

59.   Success has not dampened his enthusiasm for details.

60.   Such findings have not dampened enthusiasm for high technology among school boards and politicians, however.