11.   It may get less confusing if the broader market continues to fall, as it did Wednesday, and reaches the depressed levels of technology stocks.

12.   It was the beginning of a golden age for banks, and their share prices zoomed from badly depressed levels as weak balance sheets became strong.

13.   JDS Uniphase and Juniper Networks have already warned Wall Street that their upcoming reports will bear bad news, with sales falling below already depressed levels.

14.   Just how a depressed level of that enzyme might be enough to kill large populations of amphibians is unclear.

15.   Milunovich suspects that the companies with large numbers of underwater options will reprice them in coming months to reflect depressed stock levels.

16.   Neighborhood and community ties have frayed, public schools are often unsafe and popular culture is vulgar, and political participation is at depressed levels, Bennett said.

17.   On a long-term basis, it is hard to imagine that a diversified group of retail stocks will not show gains from these depressed levels.

18.   Still, the recovery in profits is from a very depressed level and Japanese companies cannot count on the yen going back down.

19.   The turnout was the latest indication of the relatively depressed level of public interest in the mayoral contest.

20.   The study shows that even at their current depressed levels, technology shares remain expensive.