31.   Rates would be much lower for a direct call.

32.   Rates would be lower for noncommercial broadcasters.

33.   Rising investor concern about corporate profits pushed major stock market indexes lower for the third day in a row.

34.   Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. led oil shares lower for a second day.

35.   SPANISH stocks slumped as falling bonds pulled utilities lower for the second day.

36.   Soybean futures were lower for most of the day before erasing the losses shortly before the market closed.

37.   Stocks are lower for the third day in a row amid concern slow earnings growth at U.S. technology companies will reverberate across the Pacific.

38.   Still, the bar is considerably lower for big stocks to be eligible for the New Opportunities portfolio.

39.   Such weakness among technology shares helped to push the Nasdaq composite index, a key technology stock indicator, lower for the first time this week.

40.   Television ratings were lower for sports, except when Tiger Woods played golf or NASCAR held races.