1.   Analysts said Caremark has had steep losses in home health care since the company was charged last year with violating federal kickback laws by paying doctors to recruit patients.

2.   Arriving after the Dow backed away from its recent steep losses, the interlude gave optimistic investors the opportunity to hunt for underpriced stocks and bid up the prices.

3.   Bank of Boston by January had put several years of bad loans and steep losses behind it.

4.   A late-afternoon rally saved investors from steep losses on Thursday, as stocks gained strongly in the last hour of trading.

5.   After opening a new quarter with steep losses, stocks were rebounding strongly on Thursday as some companies offered encouraging words about their profits.

6.   Brokers, monitoring the trades electronically, could see that they came overwhelmingly from Shanghai International, apparently trying to obliterate its steep losses by driving the price down.

7.   But even those kinds of advances left investors with steep losses for the year.

8.   But the selling on Friday was consistent with the steep losses posted on Monday and Tuesday.

9.   But they were consistent with the steep losses posted on the first two days of this week.

10.   But the venture reported steep losses each quarter.