1.   Analysts said Ford may be positioning itself to increase its sales to rental agencies, which can be used to inflate results.

2.   Analysts said Ford may be positioning itself to increase its sales to rental agencies, which can be used to inflate sales results.

3.   As a result, he said, the citywide results were mistakenly inflated.

4.   Computer Associates said Monday that its accounting conformed to standard rules and that it had not inflated its results.

5.   Given that the companies were not generating nearly enough revenue to keep investors happy last year, there was certainly incentive to inflate results.

6.   In June, the company said an independent review of its drilling results showed the initial results were inflated.

7.   It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and inflating results, and it penalizes them for telling the truth.

8.   It is not clear if results from earlier periods were similarly inflated.

9.   The man who conducted the study for the government, Arturo Sanchez of the University of Costa Rica, said Castro inflated the results.