101.   True, the people of Thailand and Malaysia have suffered greatly in the current economic downturn.

102.   Unless of course, the fund is only meant to help tide small businesses over the current economic downturn.

103.   We have been fortunate that, unlike other countries facing the current economic downturn, suicide is almost unheard of.

104.   Finance ministers of the European Union meet here Monday anxious to reassure their markets that the current economic downturn in the community is only temporary.

105.   But the current economic downturn in the United States, Japan and other industrialized countries could put a damper on their willingness to provide new aid.

106.   But the message from the current downturn is obvious, economists said.

107.   But Lloyds said it was set fair to ride out the current downturn.

108.   Some analysts had predicted Yeo would be relegated because he reportedly failed to anticipate the current downturn in the Singapore economy.

109.   Some analysts had predicted that the soft-spoken Yeo would be relegated because he reportedly failed to anticipate the current downturn in the Singapore economy.

110.   The banking community has been cutting back drastically on expenses, sacking staff and rationalising operations in order to ride out the current downturn.