31.   The slightly faster rate of growth was largely a result of upward revisions in consumer spending and a rise in farm inventory investment.

32.   The upward revision for the second quarter was mostly a result of a previously announced upward revision in the gross domestic product.

33.   The survey also showed an upward revision in corporate investment plans.

34.   These factors were partly offset by an upward revision to personal spending that some analysts took as a harbinger of possibly faster growth ahead.

35.   This resulted in upward revisions because of the higher weighting of crude oil in the input index, said a CSO official.

36.   Traders said the market largely ignored the unexpected upward revision to third-quarter growth because those numbers seemed like very old news.

37.   Traders said the upward revision in inflation had already been taken into account in prices, after the originally shocking preliminary reports last month.

38.   Upward revisions in earnings projections in the next few months could give new life to the market.

39.   Upward revisions in sales of autos and furniture were the reason the February gain was nearly twice as high as first reported.

40.   Unlike last month, when there was a large upward sales revision for March, revisions on Tuesday to earlier months were negligible.