1.   As the Japanese year began today, expectations rose that Japanese investors will buy dollars to purchase overseas assets, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, traders said.

2.   But expectations have risen, too.

3.   Economic growth expectations also rose this month, the survey found.

4.   German bonds were little changed as expectations rose that financial and economic problems in Southeast Asia will ebb, reducing the allure of German debt.

5.   He and other scholars of Muslim societies say these men are from the lower middle class, where expectations were rising fastest.

6.   It was the Republicans, after all, who allowed expectations to rise so high that even a modest Democratic showing was portrayed as a triumph.

7.   On the bright side, analysts believe that consumer expectations are steadily rising.

8.   OPEC Leaves Oil Output Unchanged OPEC producers agreed to keep oil output limits unchanged as expectations rose for resumption of crude exports from Iraq.

9.   Price expectations have been rising since March.

10.   The New York economy is slowly growing, economists said, but expectations are rising even faster as people enter the labor market.