1.   America Online executives, however, told analysts not to get too optimistic about coming quarters, Thompson said.

2.   And those cuts, Ridder told analysts at a recent conference in New York, will be permanent.

3.   Banking revenue declined from the second quarter because fees for advising in corporate mergers shrank, company officials told analysts.

4.   A comeback strategy has started to yield some preliminary results, DeGraan told Wall Street analysts in a conference call.

5.   A month before the announcement, it told analysts it would break even.

6.   But even so, after the coming school year, Edison intends to slow its pursuit of new contracts across the country, Whittle told the analysts.

7.   But it has been diminished partly by spending and partly by a declining value of the Euro, Philip told analysts.

8.   Competition in the market for software that guards against computer viruses is increasing, McAfee told analysts.

9.   Competitor CPC International last week told analysts its fourth-quarter results would be below estimates because of its hedging against higher corn prices just when corn futures fell.

10.   Correll was telling analysts about new products, including a Dixie cup emblazoned with Winnie the Pooh.