41.   Auto sales plummeted after taxes soared on popular small cars.

42.   Beef sales plummeted in the European Union after an upsurge of mad cow cases in several countries last year.

43.   Beef sales plummeted in France after an announcement in October that a batch of potentially infected meat had gone on sale in grocery stores.

44.   Butchers in Cotonou say that pork sales have plummeted since the outbreak began.

45.   Chrysler tried to cut incentives earlier this year, but saw sales plummet.

46.   Export sales are plummeting, and imports, made cheaper by currency devaluations in Asia, are becoming more attractive to American consumers.

47.   Germany insisted Britain must to more to curb public fears about mad cow disease which has seen beef sales plummet across Europe.

48.   Germany insisted Britain must do more to curb public fears about mad cow disease which has seen beef sales plummet across Europe.

49.   Hurn and chief executive Lord Simpson quit Marconi last year as sales plummeted and thousands of jobs were axed.

50.   In March European beef sales plummeted after Britain acknowledged a possible link between BSE and an equally deadly human brain disease.