21.   Another report today showed U.S. labor markets remained healthy.

22.   And with interest rates comparatively low so late in this economic cycle, the housing market has remained surprisingly strong long after most experts had expected it to fade.

23.   As long as this market remains fragmented, full-fledged retail collusion is unlikely.

24.   As for consumers, Business Week says they are still waiting for the competition Clinton promised, since local telecom markets remain almost complete monopolies controlled by Baby Bells.

25.   As the dollar has crumbled in recent days, US stock and bond markets have remained strangely divorced from the battered currency.

26.   As the market remains tight, the academics themselves have stepped up the debate about how to handle the problem.

27.   As long as investors are waiting for these other shoes to drop, the market will remain on edge.

28.   At least in the short term, a market remains for Power PC Macintosh chips.

29.   Banks, which typically invest heavily in bonds, rose as the bond market remained strong.

30.   Both signal to me that there is still a good deal of gas that can come out of the bag should the markets remain sour.