91.   While some importers and wholesalers have raised prices recently, Fukui and private economists said there is little evidence the increases have been passed on to consumers.

92.   With the economy having all but stalled this spring, private economists and government budget analysts have been marking down their surplus estimates for the past few weeks.

93.   Wynn, city staff and a private economist spent eight weeks scrutinizing the economic viability of paying for the Cowboys to train in Austin.

94.   Private economists expect Malaysia will slide into full-blown recession in the second quarter.

95.   Private economists expressed support for a proposal that International Monetary Fund officials are advancing to change the way debt crises are handled.

96.   Private economists generally view the assumptions underlying the estimates as reasonable, unlike previous periods when politicians cooked up rosy economic scenarios to produce mythical surpluses.

97.   Private economists had estimated, on average, that retail activity would have fallen by about half a percentage point last month.

98.   Private economists have been saying for months that the economy is stagnant.

99.   Private economists said it was hard to predict how far the dollar could decline.

100.   Private economists said the improvement mainly reflected the widespread slowdown in the U.S. economy.