21.   The country will probably slip into a recession.

22.   In Cambodia and Somalia, UN troops alleviated what had been desperate situations but both countries slipped into despair again once the UN pulled out.

23.   The accord was never implemented, and collapsed altogether when the country slipped back into civil war in April.

24.   The country has slipped ever deeper into the financial mire, so that corruption, fraud and embezzlement have become the entrenched way of life, observers said.