1.   An unusually cold winter added to the problem, strangling the construction industry and driving jobless rolls to postwar highs in January and February.

2.   By contrast, German jobless rolls have risen to fresh postwar highs for the past nine months.

3.   Economists forecast the jobless rolls will have kept rising in October.

4.   DUTCH stocks closed higher, recovering with their U.S. counterparts after an initial drop after the U.S. reported declining jobless rolls in May.

5.   Economists say the decline barely constitutes recovery from the harsh winter that put construction workers onto jobless rolls.

6.   Flooding in the upper Midwest and auto-related strikes added thousands to jobless rolls, even though labor markets otherwise remain strong.

7.   From April, jobless rolls will begin to shrink, he said.

8.   Record jobless rolls have dried up tax revenues and necessitated extra spending on unemployment benefits.

9.   Record jobless rolls have dried up tax revenue and necessitated extra spending on unemployment benefits.

10.   Record jobless rolls have dried up tax revenues and meant extra spending on unemployment benefits.