1.   Although the financial markets are functioning and most financial firms have gotten back on their feet, many airlines face the risk of insolvency.

2.   A spokesman for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that the bond market functioned better Tuesday.

3.   But capital markets can function well only if investors are confident that they are being treated fairly.

4.   But the free market we have functions badly, producing obscenely high prescription drug costs beyond the reach of ordinary retirees on fixed incomes.

5.   But whatever happens to the Dow Jones industrial average, the important fact will be that markets are functioning.

6.   If the Hong Kong and Malaysian markets were functioning freely, interest rates would probably be higher and shares would probably trade low.

7.   It is intended to mimic the way a competitive market functions.

8.   It is basically that markets will function efficiently, and our job is to extend market power through accommodation.

9.   Mainstream economic theory has done a workmanlike job in describing how markets function.

10.   So government and other institutions have to intervene, adroitly, to make markets function properly.