1.   But with the economy slowing, phone companies and big corporations are ramping down their spending on the kinds of networking gear Cisco and others make.

2.   Hotels have ramped down their operations, and many businesses have fled to the suburbs.

3.   In a wonderful bit of ergonomics, the center console ramps down from the dash toward the stick shift.

4.   She said the letter asked CMC to ramp down in January and return all Micron materials at the end of that month.

5.   Some in the administration claim to be ramping up so as to ramp down.

6.   The booming economy has already reduced the deficit to small proportions, and this deal will ramp it down another needless notch.