71.   It will put modest downward pressure on interest rates paid by small businesses and consumers, including those on some credit card balances and auto loans.

72.   Just the threat of an Asian alternative produces this downward pressure, some economists argue.

73.   Jim Link, executive vice president of the San Fernando Valley Association of Realtors, said repossessed properties will continue to exert downward pressure on resale prices this year.

74.   Karsten Rahlf, an analyst for Vereins- und Westbank AG, said the merger with less-profitable Asko could put downward pressure on Kaufhof stock.

75.   Major stock market indexes set records and a renewed bond market strength kept downward pressure on key interest rates.

76.   More to the point, import prices, by far the biggest recent drag on inflation, are apt to remain under downward pressure.

77.   McDonald J. Beavers, president of Whitney Leigh Corp., a Tulsa, Okla., marketing company, said there may be stronger downward pressure on prices.

78.   Most analysts expect little downward pressure on retail DSS prices until early next year, when other entrants come on the market.

79.   More capital means downward pressure on interest rates.

80.   Not even a low unemployment rate and rising wages offset this downward pressure on prices.