11.   The drop followed a Wall Street Journal report on allegations that the company inflated revenue with improper accounting methods.

12.   The SEC is looking into these and other methods by which companies inflated revenues or smoothed their quarterly earnings reports to mislead investors.

13.   Then he combs balance sheets and income statements, seeking clues that a company is inflating profits or faking sales.

14.   Carnival Cruise Lines settled a class-action lawsuit claiming the company had inflated port charges to increase its profits.

15.   Court records alleged the companies inflated expenses, hid how they did it and planned a way to justify it if the state found out.

16.   Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday painted a gloomy picture of a developing world condemned to high death rates because major drug companies inflate prices for medicines.

17.   Greenspan said he believes the swift reaction by Wall Street to worries that other companies had inflated their profit pictures was having the desired impact.

18.   Officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra cancelled the contract with the Enron saying the company had inflated costs.

19.   Tech companies have inflated stock prices to work off, as well, said Ricky Harrington, a technical analyst for Wachovia Securities.

20.   The jury found that the company had inflated the amount of oil it was taking by adjusting measurements in its favor.