31.   Bonds plunged as many investors bet the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee would raise interest rates before the end of the year to slow economic growth and curb inflation.

32.   Both attempt to slow growth in the eastern part of the county.

33.   Both markets tumbled yesterday on concern banks and companies with businesses in Southeast Asia may be hard hit by slowing growth and rising bad loans.

34.   Both the Democrats and Republicans favor slowing the growth of federal spending on Medicare, federally-subsidized health care coverage that benefits the middle class.

35.   Bond yields act as a proxy for corporate and individual borrowing rates and can slow growth as they rise.

36.   -- Slowing the growth of spending in the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.

37.   A balanced budget would slow economic growth and curtail inflation -- the perfect environment for the Fed to cut rates.

38.   A clearer picture of the debt situation will emerge Tuesday, when the Federal Reserve is likely to report that installment credit growth slowed in November, analysts said.

39.   A drop in factory activity might also slow job growth --which is what Greenspan has said he wants.

40.   A decade ago Folkman and his collaborators found a first generation of drugs that inhibited the formation of new blood vessels and thus slowed tumor growth in animals.