81.   A year ago, Chinese regulators were trying to dampen enthusiasm for wildly climbing markets, prompting a series of regulatory clampdowns.

82.   Analysts say questions about his health could dampen public enthusiasm for a possible second term.

83.   Benign growing conditions in South America dampened buying enthusiasm.

84.   But answering tests from neighbor and rival Pakistan and international economic sanctions later dampened enthusiasm.

85.   But enthusiasm was dampened by profit-taking later in the session.

86.   Buying enthusiasm was also dampened by jobless figures that showed that unemployment is still an issue.

87.   Comments by the director general of the Japanese finance ministry, Eisuke Sakakibara, also dampened enthusiasm for a higher dollar.

88.   Continuing pessimism about the outlook for growth in Japan also dampened investor enthusiasm, traders said.

89.   Economists said Greenspan was attempting to dampen market enthusiasm now in order to avoid an even sharper pullback later.

90.   Even news of another corporate default, this time by Shin Poong Pharmaceuticals, failed to dampen newfound enthusiasm in the stock and currency markets.