11.   PSBR caused an increase in the proliferation rate at one week.

12.   Prospective testing of five, predefined risk factors indicated that smoking was associated with a decreased healing rate at two weeks.

13.   But there have been two other significant developments which have boosted the treatment rate at Belvoir.

14.   Oestrogen is thought to reduce the rate at which bone is dissolved and to increase the rebuilding process.

15.   Also weakening the mark today was growing speculation the Bundesbank will lower a key money market rate at a policy meeting Thursday.

16.   An increase in interest rates could narrow the spread between the rate at which they lend money and what they pay for it.

17.   An official at the World Bank said its board was also discussing lending rates but that there was no consensus to raise rates at this time.

18.   Analysts are evenly divided as to whether the Fed will reduce rates at the FOMC meeting.

19.   Analysts connected the dots and concluded that Greenspan was all but guaranteeing a quarter-point increase in rates at the end of the month.