1.   About half of the new arrivals are from the non-Russian former Soviet republics, like Ukraine and Belarus, whose failing economies make life in the north appear attractive.

2.   Cavallo has paid a personal price for the failing economy.

3.   Nevertheless, the president is visiting a city preoccupied with its failing economy and with politics.

4.   Several friends, he said, have died from heart attacks that he attributed to the stress from the failing local economy.

5.   The apparent objective was to deprive the government of President Fidel Castro of hard currency the visitors to Cuba bring and his failing economy needs.

6.   The Yugoslav government, enduring a failing economy hit by years of war and sanctions, helps the refugees by providing some free food, but little else.

7.   Considering the failing economy, current projections of the surplus amount to a fraction of forecasts of a year ago.

8.   Isolated, communist North Korea is desperate for help to revive its failing economy and avert famine after three disastrous harvests due to floods and drought.

9.   Its failing economy has created huge unemployment and underemployment, particularly in urban centers.

10.   Negative sentiment towards the US government has risen since Thailand asked the International Monetary Fund for loans to bail-out its failing economy last year.