31.   About two stocks declined on the New York Stock Exchange for every one that advanced.

32.   Acambis declined on Thursday to make executives available for an interview, saying the government had restricted what it could say.

33.   Administration officials declined on Wednesday to discuss the evidence or the caveats raised by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

34.   Advancing shares were almost triple the number of those that declined on the NYSE.

35.   Advancing shares were matched almost evenly with those that declined on the New York Stock Exchange.

36.   Advancing shares were more than double the number of those that declined on the NYSE.

37.   Advancing shares were more than triple the number of those that declined on the New York Stock Exchange.

38.   Building materials companies also declined on concerns that company profits will fall below current expectations, traders and analysts said.

39.   But that premium has disappeared since both Norwest and Wells Fargo shares declined on Monday and Tuesday.

40.   Capital-intensive industrial companies also declined on the prospect of higher interest rates, which would raise the cost of doing business and hurt profits.