51.   Analysts attribute the performance to poor integration of the online and offline businesses.

52.   Analysts attribute the rise to takeover speculation.

53.   Analysts attribute this to investor concerns about competition from Internet retailers.

54.   Analysts attributed most of the sales gains to new store openings.

55.   Analysts attributed the decline to import disruptions caused by hurricanes.

56.   Analysts attributed the higher priced gas to lower inventories and continued high demand during the summer vacation months.

57.   Analysts attributed the increase to a poor US crop last year, and growing demand from newly industrializing nations including Egypt and Taiwan.

58.   Analysts attributed the jump in earnings largely to higher-than-expected interest income, a more favorable tax rate and other nonoperating contributors.

59.   Analysts attributed the recovery in the dollar and bonds largely to congressional testimony from Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

60.   Analysts attributed the slide in part to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who reiterated Thursday that the Justice Department was proceeding with its antitrust investigation of Microsoft.