1.   Also Tuesday, two other technology companies, Xilinx Inc. and the LSI Corp., disclosed that earnings would not meet earlier projections.

2.   Apple Computer Tuesday became the latest technology company to warn that its earnings would not meet earlier projections.

3.   Compaq used preliminary tallies from its third quarter, which ended Sunday, to caution Wall Street analysts that its earlier projections for a profitable quarter had been wrong.

4.   Earlier projections had counted on high-floor trains, such as those used in San Diego and Salt Lake City, Grote said.

5.   Earlier projections based on television exit polls and vote tallies showed Netanyahu defeating Peres by a thin margin.

6.   Even private economists are backing off from earlier projections for retail food prices next year.

7.   Even so, he reduced his forecast for Fed rate increases to a half point between now and year-end, from his earlier projection of a full percentage point.

8.   In June, the company said Snapple would lose money again this year, retreating from earlier projections.

9.   Noting that Rowe had scaled down an earlier projection of tripled margins, Wall Street analysts said that getting there would not be easy.

10.   Pacific Bell and U.S. West contend that the cost to operate the service is exceeding earlier projections.