101.   Since then, earnings disappointments, brought on by merchandise problems and growing competition in the discount apparel retail industry, have caused the stock to falter.

102.   Small tubers grown from potato leaf cuttings are prospering aboard the space shuttle Columbia in the Astroculture Facility, designed to grow plants in microgravity.

103.   Some home gardeners successfully grow them in the Bay Area.

104.   Taking the fungus, then in its rare sexual state, she grew it in a laboratory dish to get it to propagate in its asexual form.

105.   That was nearly four times the loss in the same period last year, and management expects the losses to grow larger in the fourth quarter.

106.   The bacteria, which grow best in a low-oxygen environment, proliferate in the can or jar and produce toxins that seep into the food.

107.   The company warned, though, that demand is not expected to grow further in the coming months.

108.   The days are growing shorter in the land of the midnight sun, but for investors in Sweden, there are still a lot of sleepless nights.

109.   The demand for meat, mostly poultry and beef, is rising everywhere, the report says, but is growing fastest in developing countries.

110.   The feat will be supplying humid and bright conditions to begin growing them in January and keeping them healthy until you can plant them out in late May.