1.   As for Discovery, Kopinski thinks the potential remains strong.

2.   As long as the U.S, economy remains strong, resentment to race preferences will remain relatively low, Mann said.

3.   As long as the economy remains strong and the stock market continues to rise, the deficit is unlikely to rise significantly next year, economists say.

4.   Bonds also got some help from signs that investor demand remains strong, said a trader at a Japanese securities company.

5.   Abundant sunshine will persist over the East Coast states as high pressure remains strong near the Atlantic Seaboard.

6.   Abundant sunshine and comfortable humidity will prevail again Monday across the Northeast as high pressure remains strong over the region.

7.   Business lending remains strong though reports on consumer credit are mixed.

8.   Buoyed by steady economic growth, U.S. demand for copper remains strong and has kept copper prices from collapsing.

9.   Chairman Louis Gerstner said product demand remains strong and that he was committed to growing earnings.

10.   Control of the city would keep open a lifeline to southern Afghanistan, where pro-Taliban sympathy, based largely on ethnic ties, remains strong.