1.  Deferred interest bonds rose to 201.68, up from 192.99 in January.

2.  Describing their results in January, Perlmutter acknowledged that the evidence strongly suggested a cosmological constant, but went no further.

3.  Denver-based Janus said its stock funds attracted $1.18 billion in January, led by inflows into its Worldwide and Overseas funds.

4.  Department store retailers, while helped by strong sales in January, are expected to report earnings that will match or fall slightly lower than expectations.

5.  Cunningham said the market is unlikely to change much by January, making the future of such a project bleak.

6.  CUNY will be allowed to begin to enforce the policy at four of its senior college campuses _ Queens, Brooklyn, Baruch and Hunter _ in January.

7.  Della Femina said he had planned to close his restaurant in East Hampton in January and February, but ended up staying open because bookings were so robust.

8.  Dell's sales were $12.3 billion in its 1998 fiscal year that ended in January.

9.  Despite being on the air since January, "The Mitch Albom Show" has yet to attract a strong following.

10.  Delta Air Lines plans to ban smoking on its trans-Atlantic flights beginning in January, making Delta the first American carrier to impose such a ban.