1.   A payroll tax is considered one of the biggest drags on business.

2.   Caterpillar Tractor and Merck were the biggest drags on the Dow.

3.   Cisco, Wal-Mart and Microsoft were the biggest positive contributors, while Pfizer and IBM were the biggest drags.

4.   He is getting rid of the Fidelity fund that was the biggest drag on his portfolio in the last quarter.

5.   Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and IBM were its biggest drags while Microsoft was the fifth biggest.

6.   In sharp contrast, the three biggest drags were all technology companies.

7.   More to the point, import prices, by far the biggest recent drag on inflation, are apt to remain under downward pressure.

8.   Not surprisingly, the biggest drag in January was motor vehicles and other big-ticket items that typically are among the first casualties of rising interest rates.

9.   Perhaps the biggest drag on the fund is size.

10.   Serbia, he said, has been the biggest drag on regional growth.