11.   Cyclical stocks have come under some of the heaviest pressure in the current downturn.

12.   Even before the current downturn in the record business and the consequent belt-tightening at major labels, performers and composers began taking their recording careers into their own hands.

13.   Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is the most notable advocate of the idea that higher productivity is real and sustainable, despite the current downturn.

14.   For that reason, underwriters have counseled many high-technology companies to wait out the current downturn.

15.   Fortunately, the federal unemployment trust funds are flush and could be used to support the states in the current downturn if Congress and the administration act.

16.   For that reason, most are likely to ride out the current downturn.

17.   Given the current economic downturn, Imbelloni says he was lucky to find Mark Jarrell and Meeting Architects.

18.   How investors will react in the current downturn depends on what happens next, but observers note that there are any number of psychological factors at play.

19.   If the current downturn is of average length, it would end in February.

20.   Indeed, that is just what many Wall Street economists are predicting, and it is one reason that few expect the current downturn to last into the autumn.