1.   Mr Hague faced criticism of his promise last October to cut taxes even if the economy entered a recession.

2.   The economy is entering upon a period of sustained growth.

3.   The economy has entered a period of recession.

4.   And for decades, the pronouncement by Moore that the economy had entered a recession has been regarded as the closest thing around to a certification from Mount Olympus.

5.   As companies acquire more fluid shapes, forming and reforming around talent and ideas, the economy may enter a new period of industrial instability.

6.   Blinder is reluctant to let the economy enter a sustained period of what he considers unnecessarily weak economic growth and rising unemployment.

7.   Blinder suggested the U.S. economy may be entering changed circumstances where high usage of factory capacity and low unemployment rates are sustainable without sparking rapid price inflation.

8.   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.

9.   Economists are still debating whether the economy has entered a recession, or is in a more narrow manufacturing recession.

10.   Greenspan thinks the economy might be entering a new era in which inflation remains low despite steady growth and low unemployment, but such notions are being challenged.