1.   Fears of gathering recession caused commodity prices to fall steadily, many ending the year below January levels.

2.   Abades, who described himself as an Aristide activist, ended a year of hiding in the countryside Monday when the U.S. troops landed.

3.   City officials said they declared the bus company bankrupt and dismissed all of its workers last March in order to end years of corruption and mismanagement.

4.   He said, however, that he thought the market would end the year higher than it is now.

5.   However the stock market indexes end the year, analysts say the one certainty is that investors can look forward to a highly volatile market.

6.   However, soon after beating Oregon to end the year, Riley bolted to San Diego.

7.   Instead, we end the year even worse off than before.

8.   Last month, Thorn announced it wanted to split its businesses into two separate companies ending a year of speculation.

9.   Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle, predicted that the recession would end next year and said his company would be in a position to profit.

10.   NASA announced that it would end years of tradition and not issue car passes that allow people to park along a normally restricted causeway to view this launching.