1.   As a result, studios are cutting output and limiting their total film expenditures.

2.   If the IEA is accurate, OPEC would have to cut output by more than a half-million barrels a day to keep supply in balance with demand.

3.   In addition to Canfor, MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., Pacific Forest Products Ltd. and Noranda Forest Inc. also have or plan to cut output.

4.   It also may force the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, to which Iraq belongs, to cut output in order to make room for the Iraqi crude.

5.   Many companies cut output this year in an effort to boost prices.

6.   Most analysts say earnings are tumbling because of a decision to cut output to reduce dealer inventories of construction equipment.

7.   Norway was the last big producer outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries that had yet to give a firm commitment to cut output.

8.   Plus, a regional drought is expected to cut palm oil output, driving prices for the product higher.

9.   Saddam could find this a useful time to put the shoe on the other foot, cutting his output to further tighten global crude supplies and ratchet prices upward.

10.   Since demand for crude imports is linked to industrial production, the decline could signal that manufacturers are cutting output, analysts said.