1.   These changes could depress the economy.

2.   Both lawmakers said charging a fee to cross the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada would place an unfair burden on area residents and depress the economy.

3.   But Chavez also wants to add such oddities as a state automaker to the huge government bureaucracies that are depressing the economy today.

4.   But many economists, including Stracke, warned that blocking consumers from freely withdrawing and spending their money will only depress the economy further.

5.   Consumers cut back, depressing the economy still further.

6.   Higher interest rates can depress the economy because they raise borrowing costs for mortgages and credit cards.

7.   Such activity has depressed the economies of Zaire and Nigeria, he said.

8.   That slowing, Greenspan said, could unleash ideological forces for new regulations and protectionism that would, in turn, further depress the economy.

9.   This bitter medicine could depress the economy and stock prices even further.

10.   While consumers are happy about lower prices, inevitably plunging prices will depress the economy, he said.