1.   Although it is still one of the strongest in the region, the Argentine economy has been battered recently, partly by the economic crisis in Mexico.

2.   As the Argentine economy lurched toward collapse late last year, Dr. Maria Carmen de los Santos was worried for her country but felt secure about her own prospects.

3.   Also, Domingo Felipe Cavallo, a former Argentine economy minister, was named publisher of the new magazine.

4.   But after the collapse of the Argentine economy in early December, he resigned and was quickly blamed for the crisis.

5.   But along with the Argentine economy, the Favaloro Foundation had fallen on hard times in recent years.

6.   But last Friday afternoon, after banks and many businesses had closed for the weekend, the Argentine economy entered the financial equivalent of the Twilight Zone.

7.   But the Argentine economy has been in a recession for almost three years now.

8.   Concerns about the health of the Argentine economy have grown since the government revised its economic data a month ago.

9.   Dollars are already common in the Argentine economy.

10.   Economists also noted that the Argentine economy had been strengthened in recent years by tighter government banking regulations that raised mandatory bank reserve requirements.