101.   Oil companies were lifted by a rise in world oil prices.

102.   Oil is the leading export, but flat world prices mean less-than-expected revenues.

103.   Officials had considered dropping the bonus all together, to reflect a stronger peso and falling world coffee prices.

104.   Now Asian sales are shrinking, and world oil prices have fallen despite repeated efforts by producing countries to limit supplies.

105.   Oil analysts said the overall effect on world prices of a European ban would be short-lived anyway because Iran could find new buyers in Asia.

106.   Oil companies pay into the fund to build up a surplus when local prices are higher than world prices.

107.   Oil revenues shrink drastically when world petroleum prices slip.

108.   Oil traders with carpetbags made fortunes persuading companies to sell oil on the cheap, which they turned around and sold for vast profits at the world price.

109.   OPEC hopes to manage world oil prices with the same sagacity the Federal Reserve has so far brought to the U.S. economy.

110.   Our price may indeed be lower than the world price in some cases, but that will always be a commercial secret.