1.   Analysts said pharmaceutical shares will continue to rise on optimism their newly developed medicines will inflate earnings.

2.   And in July, Lynch completed an investigation for Mattel Inc. into claims that it was inflating its earnings.

3.   Andersen is also in trouble for approving Enron financial statements that inflated earnings and minimized debt, making the company look better than it really was.

4.   Auto and electronics exporters were among the biggest losers amid concerns that the dollar will stop rising and inflating their earnings, traders said.

5.   BCH had been criticized for relying on one-time gains to inflate earnings.

6.   But Andersen gained notoriety recently when the SEC concluded it had knowingly or recklessly inflated earnings at the Houston-based waste hauler Waste Management.

7.   But faced with those estimates, corporate executives become more willing to bend accounting rules to hide problems or inflate earnings.

8.   But some analysts question whether those earnings were inflated by overly aggressive accounting.

9.   Domestic investors continued to sell to raise money to help them inflate their earnings and write off bad debt in the fiscal year ending in March.

10.   Drugmakers rose on hope their newly developed medicines will inflate earnings.