That tune played well with investors, and the shares of the two companies rose nicely.

There are many more companies that took similar steps in 1996, a year when most stocks rose nicely.

In fact, revenues and earnings at these and other bellwether technology companies have been rising nicely.

The manufacturing sector has not caved in, and exports are rising nicely.

The company reports that its sales rose nicely in 1995 in part because of increased promotional expenditures.

Even France, whose economy is struggling with high unemployment, rose nicely, though prices there remain below their 1994 peaks.

A number of agricultural crops rose nicely last year, with corn prices up 41 percent.

My first souffles rose nicely but came out piebald.

Certainly the blood pressure was rising nicely and there was almost no fever.

He was baiting her, of course, and she was rising nicely.