31.   Aylesworth noted other encouraging signs, including lower chip inventories at its customers and especially strong demand from Pacific Asian markets outside Japan.

32.   Bookbinder added that there have been encouraging signs.

33.   Borer listed a series of encouraging signs that Williams is getting better.

34.   A third conclusion is that health-care delivery, as opposed to finance, is showing some encouraging signs of convergence.

35.   A report on consumer confidence yesterday offered one encouraging sign.

36.   Brown said there have been encouraging signs but it is still too early to predict when the epidemic might end.

37.   But AIDS experts see some encouraging signs of change.

38.   But for now, the four-man showing stands as an encouraging sign of things to come.

39.   But he points to encouraging signs for the future that suggest a broader range of stories.

40.   But in the last few years, there have been some encouraging signs of its return.