41.   Oil prices stayed up, and Israel reached a truce with Syria and Egypt.

42.   Only if prices stayed within a narrow range would the strategy have been profitable.

43.   Other experts say, however, that air traffic could be reduced if the price of oil stays high.

44.   Patricia Lopez Mancera, a hotel spokeswoman, says room prices will stay exactly where they are.

45.   Premium tomato prices have stayed healthy, a Calgene spokeswoman noted, but commodity-tomato prices plummeted during the summer months amid an industry-wide oversupply.

46.   Prices have also stayed high because the major oil companies, having been burned in the past, have been temperate in expanding their exploration and production budgets.

47.   Prices stayed the same with three calling patterns and went down in only one.

48.   Provided land prices stay high, though, the next few years should be okay as the group sells sizeable chunks of the land.

49.   Prices will stay essentially the same, though opening hours may vary, he said.

50.   Q. Earlier this month the Energy Department said oil prices would stay soft for nearly a decade.