31.   But the Asian stock collapse of the last year has put the brakes on new business.

32.   But the Republicans have put the brakes on everything from National Sporting Goods Month to Year of the Grandparent.

33.   Clinton also did not put the brakes on efforts to expand and increase contacts among U.S. and Cuban journalists, scholars, clergy and humanitarian groups.

34.   Declining stock markets and currencies in Asia could put the brakes on regional growth and take a bite out of demand for Australian exports.

35.   Economic and attitudinal factors begin to put the brakes on growth at that point.

36.   Efforts in the last four sessions of Congress have failed to put the brakes on the willingness to appropriate more and more for disaster assistance.

37.   Electricity stocks rebounded Friday after being marked down when the government put the brakes on the two proposed takeovers.

38.   Forty years after coming to power, President Fidel Castro appears to be putting the brakes on economic reforms that marked the first years of this decade.

39.   Geneticists are developing ethical rules as their experience grows, but some wonder whether a higher authority should be putting the brakes on commercial distribution of tests.

40.   Golub put the brakes on the free fall.