1.   Although former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is leading the race, the political passions have died down, and economic worries are uppermost on the minds of most Nicaraguans.

2.   And stocks that had been buoyed by investors fearing an imminent recession dropped Wednesday as economic worries abated.

3.   A bigger concern is that consumers are spending cautiously because of economic worries and soaring debt.

4.   But analysts said the economic worries are harder to dismiss.

5.   But the underlying economic worry is that standing pat will risk losing vacationers to land-based tourist resorts.

6.   But they also seemed to be using economic worries as a point of pressure on Gore, suggesting that uncertainty over the presidency was leaving financial markets on edge.

7.   Economic worries have depressed the market this year.

8.   He charmed voters by appealing to their economic worries, and gleefully attacking the Republican establishment.

9.   He cocked his ear to the tales of economic worry, and he whapped their softball queries with infobites taken from his standard stump speech.

10.   In times of economic worry, bond buyers tend to demand bigger premiums for that risk, but until very recently, there has been little sign of worry.