1.   Analysts say the good times may not last in the U.S., however, because of an expected onslaught of new sport utilities and other light trucks from competitors.

2.   Analysts are deeply divided over how much longer the good times can last.

3.   And, the poll suggests, parents expect the good times to last.

4.   As previous transit contracts expired here with no agreement, strikes began immediately, four times lasting more than a month.

5.   As U.S. bank profits surge, the people who lend money to banks -- bond investors -- expect the good times to last a while longer.

6.   Alger believes that rarely, if ever, has the future of the stock market been so promising and predicts the good times will last for years.

7.   But good times cannot last forever.

8.   But the good times did not last much longer.

9.   But the good times will last only as long as the visitors, a fickle and peripatetic lot, keep coming, he acknowledged.

10.   But the good times may not last.