1.   Furniture.com is among many online retailers that are slashing costs and laying off employees, hoping that the capital markets will exhibit renewed interest in dot-coms.

2.   Like the market for PC operating systems, the video-game market exhibits strong network effects that protect incumbents.

3.   The market does exhibit signs that the sales drop could be short-lived.

4.   This year the market exhibited signs of snapping back.

5.   The French market exhibited nervousness in part because of German bank exposure in Russia.