11.   Analysts said investors shrugged off the signs of economic weakness and focused instead on the prospects for continued corporate earnings growth in a low-inflation environment.

12.   Analysts took the finding as support for the recent assessment by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, that economic weakness would likely prove temporary.

13.   Analysts took the finding as support for the recent assessment by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan that economic weakness would likely prove temporary.

14.   And the economic weakness there translates into desperate manufacturers willing to cut prices in order to unload goods that otherwise would go unsold.

15.   As the media talked of economic weakness, people looked for evidence.

16.   At the same time more evidence of German economic weakness poured in.

17.   Auto and paper stocks were among the biggest decliners amid signs of economic weakness.

18.   Both winter weather and general economic weakness boosted unemployment in February, Federal Labor Office President Bernhard Jagoda said at a press conference to announce the figures.

19.   A senior Republican aide said that when Hastert met with Bush this week, he would raise those possibilities as ways of countering any further economic weakness.

20.   After the Fed lowered rates two days ago, investors grew concerned that the economic weakness that prompted the cut would hurt profit growth.