1.   Other methods of stimulating volume might include controlling trading hours or by lengthening the hours, to attract business from other time zones.

2.   Grasso did not say when a formal proposal would be made to lengthen trading hours, nor the extent to which the hours might be lengthened.

3.   Pay raises slowed, health-care benefits eroded, hours lengthened, job security disappeared.

4.   To deal with the overflow, meatpackers are lengthening their hours.

5.   Trading hours will be lengthened only if both institutional investors and brokerage firms demand it, Grasso said.

6.   A Kentucky measure would lengthen polling hours.

7.   It gives management greater freedom to lay off employees, lengthen working hours and hire substitutes.