51.   Most have also been forced to cut back on lending, creating a credit crunch, especially among smaller companies.

52.   Nope, this is the deluxe model that combines falling economic activity, constantly shrinking asset values, and a seemingly endless credit crunch.

53.   Now that the Fed has cut interest rates twice in a matter of weeks, fears of a credit crunch and recession have diminished.

54.   Nissan automobile dealer Carlos Lozano said the credit crunch is the latest in a series of blows threatening his once-prosperous dealership in Nuevo Laredo.

55.   Remember the credit crunch, when executives and entrepreneurs around the country squawked that banks had raised standards so high that no one could get a loan?

56.   Rerngchai said the scheduled startup in March of provident funds for civil servants and state enterprise employees will generate savings and help ease a credit crunch.

57.   Seen up close in villages, the Asian financial crisis is not a conundrum of currency pegs and credit crunches and various imponderables.

58.   Some call it a credit crunch.

59.   Stocks have fallen for the past week, though, over concern the government may not have a permanent cure for the broadening credit crunch.

60.   Some of those borrowers may not be able to pay the loans back, which could produce big losses and a credit crunch down the road.