71.   In the last two days of the week, however, stock prices slid back amid heavy profit-taking and gloomy economic prospects.

72.   Airline share prices slid.

73.   But prices slid back sharply on Saturday amid widespread labor unrest.

74.   Many insitutions sell borrowed stocks when share prices are high in hopes of replacing them when prices slide.

75.   Oil futures prices slid on the New York market early Monday in the absence of additional tensions between the United States and Iraq.