81.   Japan is stuck in a decadelong economic slowdown, and corporate bankruptcies have been on the rise.

82.   Monthly corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell in July from a year earlier though the total was the second highest number this year, a credit agency said Friday.

83.   More than six months have passed since eruption of the biggest-ever corporate bankruptcy in an affair tinged with political overtones.

84.   Other negative factors hitting the economy to be considered in the revision are corporate bankruptcies and worsening unemployment as banks write-off massive bad debts, the report said.

85.   Reforms are expected to bring more corporate bankruptcies in unprofitable industries and higher unemployment.

86.   SHARE prices slid yesterday to their lowest levels in two years over continued worries of more corporate bankruptcies to come.

87.   Sniping back, Andersen said Thursday its relationship with Enron ended in early December when the company slid into the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.

88.   Teikoku Data Bank, a private research agency, reported corporate bankruptcies in May soared more than a third from the previous month.

89.   Stock analysts said most foreign fund managers would not return to Indonesia in coming months as they feared major corporate bankruptcies would occur in Indonesia.

90.   That is unlikely to improve at a time when corporate bankruptcies and unemployment are expected to rise.