31.   Although the forecasters believe the slower economy will keep inflation from boiling over, they expect it to cause a slight increase in unemployment.

32.   Analysts said a slower economy is helping to hold down prices, and sluggish growth could lie ahead.

33.   Analysts said talk of a dramatically slower economy may be premature.

34.   Analysts said threats to jobs and income growth from the slower economy made many prospective home buyers cautious about taking on new debt.

35.   Analysts said threats to job and income growth from the slower economy made many prospective home buyers cautious about taking on new debt.

36.   Analysts said Wall Street is still gravitating toward non-tech issues, which are viewed as safer in a slower economy, as it has done since Labor Day.

37.   Bond investors like a slower economy because it minimizes inflation, which diminishes the value of fixed-income securities.

38.   Bond prices usually rise on the news of a slower economy, because it eases fears of inflation.

39.   But a second report suggested a slower economy that may not need a dose of higher rates to keep inflation at bay.

40.   But most Democrats opposed it because spending reductions would be triggered even if tax cuts or a slower economy were eating into Social Security.