1.   Farmers squealed that the popular porcine hero fueled a drop in pork sales as children boycotted Babe on a platter.

2.   Aggressive prevention campaigns, coupled with an increase in the use of condoms to combat sexually transmitted diseases, have fueled a drop in births to teen-agers.

3.   But pig farmers squealed that the popular hero fueled a drop in pork sales as children boycotted Babe on a platter.

4.   Declines among Asian students also are fueling the drops nationally.

5.   Exporters also fueled the drop.

6.   Fueling the drop was a decline in steel shares, amid concern rising iron ore and coking coal prices will cut into earnings.

7.   New York metropolitan area stocks fell for the fourth time in five days as rising bond yields fueled a drop in shares of banks and other lenders.

8.   Some company executives and analysts say that the drop was fueled by the migration of high-technology help-wanted advertising to the Internet.

9.   The announcement fueled drops in other leading U.K. biotech stocks as investors were reminded of the risks in biotechnology.