111.   Korner suggests the ratings would decline but hesitates to guess the drop would be dramatic.

112.   Later, less than an hour before the market closed, a weary Grasso offered that the market drop could have been worse.

113.   Lauffer said the drops were not significant and that sales cannot be timed around quarterly earnings reports.

114.   Leaf drop is normal on Southern magnolias.

115.   Many drops in confidence are too small or too short to affect spending.

116.   Marwitz said that any twin-engine propeller plane would have been vulnerable to the hazardous precipitation because such planes commonly fly at altitudes where super-cooled drizzle drops are possible.

117.   Microsoft officials had warned that a drop was likely.

118.   Most employers understand that there can be a drop in pay when people relocate to an area with a lower cost of living.

119.   Not only was the drop worse than analysts expected, no major category was spared.

120.   No one seems certain if the drop is a one-time blip or a sign of long-term woes, but investors clearly expect the worst.