11.   Construction companies fell amid continuing concern about the ability of contractors -- and their creditor banks -- to carry bad debt.

12.   Construction companies fell amid continuing concern about the ability of contractors -- and their creditor banks --to carry bad debt.

13.   Continuing concern about safety and the skepticism of organized labor make getting any plan through Congress a difficult task.

14.   Continuing public concern over privacy on the Internet was the reason, a spokesman said.

15.   FRENCH stocks fell Wednesday amid continuing concern about first-half earnings and fresh uncertainty about interest rates.

16.   George A. Grasso, deputy police commissioner for legal matters, called the problem a continuing concern, but said it was not necessarily worse than in past years.

17.   Going forward, there is continuing concern in the industry that private equity returns will be hurt by too much money chasing too few deals.

18.   Investors were betting that recent losses on longer bonds, after a poor gilt auction and continuing concern over supply, were overdone.

19.   It stressed its continuing concern that the current low rate of unemployment could lead wages to rise so fast that companies would be forced to jack up their prices.

20.   Japanese stocks traded mixed as signs of a turnaround in the chip industry offset continuing concern over bad loans at banks.