1.   A report showing a stronger-than-expected increase in U.S. manufacturing output in the Midwest also fanned investor interest in North American securities, traders said.

2.   Brosnan said the trip to Japan would increase corporate and fan interest in baseball.

3.   But the recent space probes, the discovery of possible evidence of life on Mars in a meteorite and media coverage have fanned interest in meteorites.

4.   Miscalculating fan interest.

5.   One has to wonder how Clemente, in all his greatness, would have withstood the media blitz and fan interest of the past two months.

6.   Some of those issues are not accidental -- Wilson has fanned interest in illegal immigration and crime, for example.

7.   Corporate sponsorship revenues rose as did fan interest in the Games.

8.   Corporate sponsorship revenues rose, as did fan interest in the Games.