1.   Analysts said the continuation of second-quarter earnings warnings has begun to dampen the optimism that had been building that earnings would improve beginning in the fourth quarter.

2.   A recent pause in home sales and housing starts has done little to dampen builder optimism.

3.   But the barrage of criticism and warnings has done little to dampen the optimism of the Welfare Party, or Refah as it is called in Turkish.

4.   But the vagaries of contract negotiations and fate seemed to dampen that optimism.

5.   Canadian stocks are expected to rise after a report of strong U.S. housing starts failed to dampen optimism that inflation is under control, analysts said.

6.   Even fierce fighting in Kunduz to the north and Kandahar in the south, both Taliban strongholds that have yet to fall, has not dampened their optimism.

7.   That dampened optimism for an immediate interest rate cut.

8.   That dampened optimism that the Fed will cut rates this year, and bond prices reversed an early gain.

9.   The Bundesbank decision dampened optimism that the U.K. authorities will cut interest rates when they meet next week.

10.   The money supply reports dampened optimism that interest rates can fall again soon.