1.   Although the CBO is obviously doing a lot of guessing here, its next adjusted economic assessment is not due until January, after the November election.

2.   An upbeat economic assessment by Alfred Broaddus, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, also rekindled inflation concerns in financial markets.

3.   An upbeat economic assessment by Alfred Broaddus, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, also rekindled inflation concerns.

4.   As in the past, however, the politically attuned prime minister has remained elusive about a referendum date and cautious about the likely outcome of any economic assessment.

5.   Greenspan repeated the upbeat economic assessment that yesterday sent gold lower and boosted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to record highs.

6.   Japanese stocks fell as a grim government economic assessment heightened concern about slumping auto sales and soaring prices of shares in electronics makers such as Sony Corp.

7.   Rounding out his bookcase were economic assessments of Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge and studies of the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

8.   The government had also downgraded the economic assessment when it said last week that the economy was weakening.

9.   Those results echo the glum economic assessment given by Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa in his annual policy address last week.

10.   In an upbeat economic assessment, Nemtsov noted that interest rates, which had been too high for businesses to borrow actively, have fallen sharply.