81.   Now, manufacturers, who cut production last year to slim their bloated inventories, are increasing production to meet demand.

82.   OPEC cut production last year and was joined by several non-OPEC nations like Mexico and Norway, sending oil and gasoline prices soaring to their highest levels in years.

83.   OPEC has already cut its production three times this year but a slowing world economy and decreasing demand for oil have left a glut of oil on world markets.

84.   OPEC is on the verge of cutting its production deeply to push up prices.

85.   OPEC decides in Cairo on Friday whether to cut oil production.

86.   OPEC ended its summer meeting, as ministers renewed a pledge to cut oil production they say exceeds a self-imposed production target.

87.   Other companies, especially memory chip makers like Samsung, Hyundai and Texas Instruments, have announced that they are suspending expansion plans or cutting production.

88.   Other oil-producing nations in the Middle East cut production to reap windfall profits.

89.   OPEC has cut production three times this year.

90.   Profits at copper mining companies tumbled, with some companies forced to cut production to help arrest the price slide.