11.   Industrial production has continued to decline, reflecting manufacturing weakness, while home building has showed surprising strength and the unemployment rate did not rise.

12.   Last week, expectations for lower interest rates in Germany heightened, reflecting economic weakness.

13.   Recently, however, the weakness of the Japanese currency has been taken as reflecting the weakness of the overall economy.

14.   Some of that weakness could reflect weakness in Asia, from a prolonged slowdown in Japan to the currency crisis afflicting Thailand and its neighbors.

15.   The changes in Chinese defence economics reflect weakness at home.

16.   The economic news also reflected continued weakness since the terrorist attacks.

17.   The decline reflected continued weakness in capital spending by businesses but helped the Tokyo stock market recoup losses posted earlier because of high-technology earnings worries.

18.   The merger announced last week between the auto workers, steel workers and machinists unions reflects weakness, rather than revival, of organized labor.

19.   The sluggish reaction by the FDA and CDC to the cascade of Lariam critiques reflects weakness in its adverse drug reaction reporting system.

20.   The warning reflected weakness in Asian markets and difficulties at Cyrix, a chip maker that National Semiconductor purchased last year.