11.   Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., criticized the vote as short-sighted, insisting that prices would rise again despite the OPEC action.

12.   Share prices rose despite indications that slow economic growth may be holding back gains in profits.

13.   Share prices rose despite indications that the economy is growing only slowly and that third-quarter profits might not be as good as analysts predicted.

14.   STOCKS INCREASE, LED BY NASDAQ Stocks rose despite a fresh round of corporate profit warnings.

15.   Stock prices rose despite those tests and rising military tension because of government-coordinated buying, said Nate Emerson, an executive with HG Asia Securities.

16.   Stocks rose despite lower bonds and higher interest rates.

17.   Texas stocks rose despite a decline in the broader market.

18.   The president, whose job approval ratings have risen sky-high despite the Lewinsky matter, made no mention of the controversy in his unity address to fellow Democrats.

19.   The stock rose despite a poor showing by the broader market.

20.   They even kept rising despite the recovery.