21.   Later the losses deepened as investors pondered conflicting reports over comments made by a Fed official and moved to the sidelines ahead of the durable goods report due Thursday.

22.   Mayor James Hahn, a secession opponent, said he and his staff will review the report over the weekend.

23.   Nonetheless, a tabulation by IBES International, which tracks forecasts, suggested that second-quarter profit reports over the summer would not prove disappointing over all.

24.   Nothing is final, but reports over the weekend indicated Pippen was leaning toward signing with Houston and Gugliotta was leaning toward staying in Minnesota.

25.   Now virtually any retail outlet can purchase PC software that does sophisticated sales tracking and sends reports over the Internet to central accounting offices.

26.   Press reports over the weekend suggested Bertelsmann was looking to sell stakes in one or more of its interests in exchange for screening rights.

27.   Reports over the weekend that service might remain curtailed through the end of the year sent units of Eurotunnel skidding in Paris and London.

28.   Shares in Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France, plunged after reports over the weekend that water was seeping into the tunnel.

29.   The monthly assessment of the economy came under close scrutiny after a series of reports over the past two weeks painted a schizophrenic portrait of growth.

30.   The study is the latest in a series of reports over the past decade that have found racial disparities in death-penalty cases.