31.   The test will come when investors get a look at fourth-quarter corporate profits reports over the next few weeks, analysts say.

32.   The turnout for the PLO chairman Tuesday fell far short of the tens of thousands predicted in press and broadcast reports over the last two days.

33.   There had been, of course, conflicting reports over the status and terms of a rumored merger with Sun Microsystems Inc.

34.   There have been reports over the past few days of incidents in which Haitians looted warehouses of food and other relief supplies.

35.   There were conflicting reports over whether Barak and Arafat had spoken or shaken hands when the summit opened.

36.   Toshiba officials declined to comment specifically on reports over the weekend that the company plans alliances with overseas competitors to reduce production capacity.

37.   Timing is everything, so they value the ability to get crop reports over the Internet or fax stock projections to commodities traders.

38.   Traders expect the general upward tendency to continue, on what are expected to be generally strong company earnings reports over the next few weeks.

39.   Wall Street started battering Ford shares after reports over the weekend that a profit warning was imminent.

40.   We were getting reports over the police monitor in the press room in the basement of the old City Hall of flash flooding throughout Fort Worth.