1.   These facts, once understood in detail, would gain for ecological engineering the support from engineers it now enjoys.

2.   Among other stocks, Agco Corp., a Duluth, Georgia-based farm equipment manufacturer, continued to climb, gaining for the fourth consecutive day.

3.   Ancor Communications Inc. gained for a second day after signing an agreement with Sequent Computer Systems Inc. that allows Sequent to sell its ANSI Fibre Channel switches.

4.   And when the Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time in half a century, many political professionals viewed Clinton as fatally wounded.

5.   And what have they gained for their efforts?

6.   As many as two shares gained for each that declined.

7.   Bank shares gained for a second day on expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to lower interest rates.

8.   Bank stocks also lifted the market, gaining for a second day amid persistent speculation about mergers and takeovers in the industry.

9.   Bank shares gained for a third day on expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to lower interest rates.

10.   Banking gained for a second day after the finance and justice ministries agreed that banks may sell perpetual bonds --bonds with no maturity dates.