21.   Tokyo officials dutifully slashed rates to zero, subsidized failing companies to prevent unemployment and went on a Keynesian spending spree.

22.   Weak German economic reports and a series of recent comments by Bundesbank officials suggesting that the central bank may slash German rates helped fan the speculation.

23.   Weak German economic growth will prompt the German central bank to slash the rates, traders said.

24.   When the economy tanks or when other tax rates are slashed, Uncle Sam can always rely on the dying rich to help fill federal coffers.

25.   Power contracts have been canceled and the courts have ordered rates slashed.

26.   Rates have been slashed across every category of hotel.

27.   All three carriers slashed their rates to destinations in Europe in an attempt to attract Singapore customers, who are beginning to feel the pinch from the financial crisis.

28.   Also, analysts expect the Hong Kong Association of Banks to slash deposit rates by a quarter-point or a half-point as early as Friday.

29.   By the time he started slashing rates in January, the economy was already tottering on the brink of a recession and the tech-stock bubble had burst.

30.   HUBCO was ordered to slash electricity rates by half after a Lahore High Court ruled its rates were inflated.