51.   After rising at a slower pace for several years, a period of disinflation, wholesale and consumer prices posted absolute declines last month.

52.   Airline traffic results released today for July showed traffic growing at a slower pace than June.

53.   Akio Egawa, a Ministry of Finance official, said the decline in the trade surplus will continue, though at a slower pace than before.

54.   All they have to do, he said, is buy at a slower pace than in the past.

55.   Borrowing by American consumers rose at a slower pace in July than it did in June, a sign that a growing number of household budgets may be stretched.

56.   Bush is raising money at a slightly slower pace because the GOP is already financially ahead.

57.   Business activity at Philadelphia-area manufacturers grew in May for the fifth month in a row -- though at a slower pace than last month.

58.   Business grew at a slower pace this month in the Philadelphia area, according to the latest regional Federal Reserve study.

59.   Businesses, too, are spending at a slower pace.

60.   But it looks like it will be a slower pace in the big one.