11.   Others said they thought the euro would finally rally, ending the year modestly stronger against the dollar.

12.   So long as we are free to buy and sell and invest across international borders, we are sure to end the year better than we started it.

13.   That pretty much ended her year.

14.   That would be a big improvement from the way the Westlake Village-based company ended the year.

15.   The move would also end a year of speculation about possible mergers that started last summer with talk that S-E-Banken and Handelsbanken wanted to merge.

16.   The NATO attack followed months of diplomacy that failed to end a year of fighting between Yugoslav forces and the separatists.

17.   The Massachusetts economy ended the year with a bang in December, and set a new employment record in the process.

18.   The stock market ended a year of volatile trading on Thursday, having rebounded from its worst sell-off in eight years to post record-setting gains.

19.   The terrible death and destruction imposed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended years of misery and prevented further death and destruction.

20.   The two sales end a year in which GIB also shed Disport, a French sports-goods retailer, and Christiansen, a toy chain.