1.   But the findings bolster the long-held suspicion that investors in general do better betting on focused companies.

2.   Critics say the new findings bolster their arguments against the profit-making companies.

3.   Dr. John H. Ostrom, a paleontologist who recently retired from the Yale University faculty, said the findings bolstered the case for a dinosaur-bird ancestral link.

4.   The finding has bolstered leaders of minority groups who are cool to the term.

5.   The finding bolsters the theories of a missile or bomb, and deflates the third theory of mechanical failure.

6.   Their quantitative findings bolstered similar results by other researchers.

7.   While not startling, the finding bolsters the theory that at least one more tainted letter, so far undiscovered, has moved through the Washington mail.

8.   Others contend the findings bolster the notion that women weighing hormone use should proceed with caution.

9.   The MIT findings may bolster that theory.

10.   The latest findings bolster previous research linking prematurity to more subtle and long-term cognitive difficulties.