91.   Bigger brokerages benefited from additional business from foreign and domestic institutional investors.

92.   Bond traders said the company sold Treasury securities because a municipal pension fund decided to withdraw its business from the Newport Beach, California-based money management firm.

93.   Blacksmith Art Bennett likewise welcomes the brisk business from the new resident equestrians.

94.   Both inherited businesses from hard-working fathers.

95.   Both reported a decline in their securities businesses from the year-earlier period, which was a record quarter for Wall Street.

96.   A coterie of bankruptcy lawyers does get repeat business from the corporation.

97.   A handful of workers said they conducted business from home.

98.   A Malaysian hotel group has established a hotel and casino complex and a young Australian has started a bungee-jumping business from an old naval crane.

99.   A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Leeb got hooked on his business from his life-long passion as a fisherman and boater.

100.   A negative reading indicates a slowdown, because the index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of respondents reporting less business from the percentage reporting more.