1.   Exports are failing, company profits have collapsed, manufacturing production is slumping and the stock market looks perilously weak.

2.   Prices paid to manufacturers, farmers and other producers, meanwhile, rose modestly, while industrial production slumped in February.

3.   The two world wars, when beet production in Europe slumped, did Cuba a power of good.

4.   Cash receipts and operating expenses hit record highs, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday, even as production slumped.

5.   Industrial and agricultural production are slumping.

6.   Movie production slumped.

7.   Wheat and cotton production have slumped by more than half.

8.   But production has slumped dramatically, Iraqi agriculture officials said, without specifying the current production figures.

9.   The fields have been abandoned because of the insecurity and so food production has slumped.