81.   Business confidence in Western Germany rose in August for the fifth consecutive month, according to a report by the influential Ifo research institute.

82.   Business confidence is at an all-time high.

83.   But business confidence has increased and European economic officials said Saturday that they expected modest growth in the first quarter of this year.

84.   But he spoke at length about consumer and business confidence, likening its collapse to a dam breaking.

85.   But he said it was more difficult to assess the possible effects on consumer and business confidence.

86.   But we do have rapidly deflating stock prices, and equally rapidly deflating consumer and business confidence.

87.   China still desperately wants the transition to go smoothly and uneventfully, with no rude jolts to business confidence or Chinese relations with other countries.

88.   Corporate tax revenues have slackened, and declining business confidence suggests slim prospects for an uptick anytime soon.

89.   Consumer confidence and business confidence in long-term economic growth are high.