31.   After it announced first-quarter earnings, EDS said second-quarter earnings would fall short of the year-earlier level, without being specific.

32.   All three companies issued warnings Thursday that third-quarter earnings would fall short of predictions made by stock analysts.

33.   Both said their second-quarter earnings will fall below year-earlier results because shipments of goods have lagged.

34.   But AMR earnings fell short of Wall Street estimates.

35.   But earnings are falling, and will be under continued pressure if oil prices do not recover sharply.

36.   But households at all other income levels saw their inflation-adjusted earnings fall, with the exception of the best-earning tenth of the population.

37.   But earnings fell.

38.   But in a conference call with analysts before the market opened Tuesday, the company warned that second quarter earnings will fall short of Wall Street forecasts.

39.   But its earnings fell in the last two quarters and its retail sales also have been weak this year.

40.   But its earnings fell in the last two quarters.