It is important, as with any fish, to consider special factors in its natural habitat.

In your own case, however, there is a rather special complicating factor.

But now the special factors that made prices jump early are disappearing.

"A little may be special factors like weather, but there's a lot of strength there."

So it seems there are special factors eroding trust in the news industry.

But special factors made 1992 a good year for capital spending.

The 63-cent figure was reduced to 61 cents by two special factors recorded that year.

The results for both years reflected a number of special factors.

But most analysts who take the long view find little comfort in these special factors.

Analysts said special factors had much to do with the conflicting data.