1.   Also in its quarterly earnings statement, the bank noted mounting losses on its consumer credit-card business.

2.   Analysts said legislators may also oppose the decision as unfairly protecting Wharf from mounting losses on its investment.

3.   Analysts said legislators may oppose the decision as unfairly protecting Wharf from mounting losses on its investment.

4.   Any additional squeeze in margins could force meatpackers to idle factories rather than face mounting losses, they said.

5.   As the stocks soared, short-sellers began unwinding their positions because of mounting losses.

6.   As these investors scrambled to buy long-term Treasuries, traders who had sold those securities short faced mounting losses.

7.   BankAmerica Corp. recently sold its branches in Chicago-area supermarkets, a region where it had no brick-and-mortar branches, because of mounting losses.

8.   Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut shut down an HMO with salaried doctors in February because of mounting financial losses.

9.   A week later, Tokuyo City Bank Ltd., a regional lender, failed under the weight of bad loans and mounting losses.

10.   After decades of devotion to sales and size, mounting losses and an economic slowdown are forcing a dramatic turnaround in the business model of Korea Inc.