1.   Manufacturers have tried to put a floor under the price of their products.

2.   Putting a floor into the make a pantry.

3.   This put a floor under the price that the brokers would obtain on liquidating their long positions.

4.   And since it is hard to cut nominal wage rates, price stability could put a floor beneath real wages.

5.   A few good earnings reports would put a floor back under these stocks.

6.   By putting a floor on the amount of taxes owed, the law kept people from using various tax shelters and deductions to virtually eliminate their tax liabilities.

7.   Demand for chips from PC and computer game makers gearing up for Christmas has helped put a floor under chip prices.

8.   Investors like buybacks because they put a floor under stock prices.

9.   It puts a floor under short-term German interest rates.

10.   News Corp. said the decline was mainly because of the demise of the U.K. Net Book Agreement, which had put a floor on the retail price of books.