31.   After rising a few cents on the day of the intervention, the currency soon began floating down again and hit new lows last week.

32.   After falling to a new low against the yen for the third straight session, the dollar ended little changed.

33.   All of this amounted to more bad news for the euro, which plumbed new lows for the year against both the dollar and the Japanese yen.

34.   Both stocks fell to new lows Wednesday.

35.   Both the Philippine peso and the Thai baht set new record lows.

36.   But for even the toughest-skinned commuters, this was a new low.

37.   But disgust in the French political system is at an all-time high, and respect for the office of the presidency is at a new low.

38.   But even with long-term rates at new lows, shorter-term rates have not fallen so far.

39.   But many investing veterans say that the quality of Wall Street research has sunk to new lows.

40.   But lest we forget, Dodd took the donations-for-political-access equation to new lows last year.