81.   Once the spring auction results are added, the index could be used to help determine how the current economic downturn is affecting the art market.

82.   President Bush and his Democratic rivals are increasingly dragging the slowing economy into their tax fight, dueling over who is to blame for the current downturn.

83.   Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said administration actions are directly responsible for the current downturn.

84.   Shipley said in a recent television interview that her government would not hold future generations hostage by running up debt during the current economic downturn.

85.   Squires said PeopleSoft is continuing to invest in Asean despite the current economic downturn.

86.   Some economists privately quibble with that, saying that the current downturn lacks the depth, duration and diversity of normal recessions.

87.   Some private economists disagree with that, saying the current downturn lacks the depth and diversity of normal recessions.

88.   SUREMAX Group Bhd will strive to achieve better sales next year as the current economic downturn is not expected to drastically affect their property and construction activities.

89.   The car industry, one of the leading industries in Asean, has not been spared by the current economic downturn that has beset Asia, he said.

90.   THE domestic labour market is expected to weaken in the face of the current downturn in domestic economic activities.