51.   The Big Three automobile companies, however, fell after Paine Webber lowered its ratings on their stocks.

52.   The bond rating agencies are lowering ratings of big companies, having discovered that they cannot sell assets for the expected prices.

53.   The falloff in technology prices came after an analyst with the Soundview Financial Group, Rick Whittington, lowered his ratings on Micron Technology and Texas Instruments.

54.   The hospitals corporation, whose bond rating was lowered last year, might have trouble borrowing money on its own, financial experts said.

55.   The ministry scrambled to raise standards after the rating was lowered in August.

56.   The move is a warning that bond ratings could be lowered, raising interest rates.

57.   The move lowered the rating on government and government-guaranteed bonds issued in local currency.

58.   The panel was divided on many of the teas, which lowered overall ratings.

59.   The rating was lowered to BBB, from A-.

60.   The Texas Education Agency later lowered those ratings.