11.   Reports out today bolstered that view by showing more Americans filed for first-time unemployment claims and fewer managers expect to expand output.

12.   Reports this evening bolstered widely held notions of a generation imperiled by waning social discipline.

13.   State Sen. Tom Hayden, D-Los Angeles, said the report bolsters his contention that the subway project should be stopped dead in its tracks.

14.   Taken together, the reports bolstered expectations that the Federal Reserve will refrain from boosting bank lending rates anytime soon to curb growth and quell inflation.

15.   The lead prosecutor, Jonathan C. Benedict, appeared confident that the report bolstered his efforts to get the case transferred to Superior Court.

16.   The report bolstered U.S. bonds and stocks and prompted demand for the dollars foreign investors need to buy those securities.

17.   The reports bolstered concern that Fed policy-makers will raise interest rates again in the next few months to slow economic growth, following a rise last month.

18.   The reports bolstered the market before the Fed news.

19.   The report bolstered arguments that the U.K. economy is picking up pace, promising higher corporate profits for companies whose fortunes fluctuate with the economy.

20.   The report bolstered bonds and overcame a report of a trade deficit that was sharply wider and a weekly jobless claims number that was surprisingly lower.