41.   Despite the strong earnings, investors failed to bid up the bank shares, expressing their concern that rising interest rates will affect future earnings.

42.   Employers were pursuing new graduates relentlessly and bidding up salaries and bonuses to make sure they had enough employees.

43.   Even as speculators bid up its stock, Alumax Inc. took steps Friday to thwart an unwanted takeover by Kaiser Aluminum Corp.

44.   Even before the compromise, station prices reached unheard-of limits as buyers bid up prices in anticipation of the rule change.

45.   Even so, he will refrain from bidding up the dollar against the mark for now, he added.

46.   Employers would start bidding up wages in an increasingly desperate attempt to find good workers, and that in turn would trigger an overall rise in prices.

47.   Figuring greater demand for chips meant stronger computer sales, investors bid up shares of computer companies.

48.   For example, traders bid up the Dow component stocks of Walt Disney, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, and IBM, all of which have large foreign operations.

49.   Foreign investors bid up banks on expectations the government will help them deal with the trillions of yen in nonperforming loans owed to bank-affiliated housing lenders.

50.   Foreign investors bid up shares amid optimism that recent gains in industrial production and auto sales foreshadow a strong recovery in the domestic economy and higher corporate profits.