51.   Technical factors also helped push the Nikkei Stock Average higher in the early session as arbitrage players bought stocks to cover short positions, market participants said.

52.   Technical factors also helped push the Nikkei Stock Average higher as arbitrage players bought stocks to cover short positions, market participants said.

53.   These factors have also helped to increase the average rate of unemployment in thecountry.

54.   Those factors helped the Lakers draw within five points, but then, with nobody to stop Miller, the defense collapsed.

55.   This study wanted to see if other social factors might help explain the apparent health benefits.

56.   If nothing else, the revenge factor may help the Welsh -- they want to wipe out the memory of that unexpected defeat at Cardiff Arms Park last year.

57.   International factors scarcely helped, with Wall Street ending weaker on Friday and Tokyo share prices slumping once again.

58.   All these positive factors helped British stocks to avoid the sharp plunge seen on Wall Street on Thursday, but they still sustained losses.

59.   Such factors helped convince Toshiba Consumer Products to move its regional headquarters from Panama to Miami last April, said sales manager Yutaka Hashimoto.

60.   Technical factors helped the dollar, which had been on the rise since the government reported Wednesday a general improvement in the US trade deficit.