51.   Now that the economy is weakening, America is starting to look like a high-technology Gulliver, tied down by costly Lilliputian threads of glass.

52.   Now that Bush has won his tax cut and the economy is weakening, however, the inviolability of the Social Security trust fund is a brake on spending.

53.   Prices fell as steel companies gave breaks to automakers amid expectations that the U.S. economy would weaken.

54.   Rowe has said that demand for HMOs will continue, and it may increase if the economy weakens as employers and consumers struggle with rising health costs.

55.   Should the market fall, the economy could weaken, which in turn, could drag the market lower still.

56.   So the bet no longer is that the economy will weaken.

57.   Some brand-name consumer stocks bucked the downward trend, with analysts citing their ability to export successfully even if the U.S. economy weakened.

58.   Some economists said the economy may not weaken as much as current bond prices would indicate.

59.   Statistics Canada today said manufacturing shipments for February fell more than expected, indicating the economy may be weakening.

60.   Stocks dropped as concern over deadlocked auto-trade talks between Japan and the U.S. offset earlier hopes the economy is weakening enough to prompt lower interest rates.