51.   This caused a cash crunch which stifled consumer spending and strangled economic activity.

52.   This led to a cash crunch which stifled consumer spending and strangled economic activity.

53.   To avoid a cash crunch, Tyco must quickly complete its planned sale of the CIT Group, its financing unit, analysts say.

54.   Wages and prices would eventually fall, easing the cash crunch, making Mexican exports competitive and putting Mexicans back to work.

55.   Welcome to the biotech cash crunch.

56.   With small and mid-size biotech companies enduring the worst cash crunch in industry history, Chiron has an opportunity to cherry-pick promising technologies at bargain prices.

57.   A cash crunch has forced Loudcloud to reorganize, the company said in a release.

58.   A financier from New York, Steve Massey, was more sympathetic about the cash crunch.

59.   Almost everyone in the industry expects Unitel to survive the cash crunch, but not everyone agrees on who will own what once the dust settles.

60.   Besim Mazreku, who is no relation to the grocer, sees the effects of the cash crunch every day.