51.   As more companies report fourth-quarter profits, investors are snatching up stocks of companies they expect will continue to do well this year.

52.   As more companies reported fourth-quarter results, investors gravitated to machinery, computer and consumer goods makers they expect to expand profits this year.

53.   As the dot-coms continued to fall, he slowly lowered more of his ratings, often after the companies reported disappointing results.

54.   As required by law, the company reported the deaths to the Food and Drug Administration.

55.   At a scheduled follow-up surgery for both groups, the company reported that patients who received the treatment had fewer adhesions.

56.   At the same time Rhodes announced the sale, the company reported a second-quarter loss, its second quarterly loss in a row.

57.   At the same time the company reported strong earnings growth.

58.   At the same time, the company reported that third quarter earnings increased substantially.

59.   At least some of the esoteric products that Wall Street has invented have been designed to allow companies to report profits that are greater than real economics allow.

60.   At the time, the company was already reporting revenue at a rate that Wall Street was expecting.