1.   While manufacturers reported that business activity grew at a slower rate than prior months in the region, service sector growth picked up, the survey said.

2.   Despite Russian oil sector growth, Gref also emphasized that Russian oil companies need more outside investment.

3.   The current crisis has brought about low demand in the region, resulting in sluggish production sector growth worldwide.

4.   The recovery of the manufacturing sector will power economic growth in the months ahead, economists said.

5.   To continue advancing industrial sector growth, Blanco said, the government must keep public financing clean, control public spending, reduce inflation, and cut red tape.

6.   Increased supply of educated and skilled labour and structural action to facilitate business sector growth should combine to bring higher reak incomes, the OECD said.

7.   And the executives downplayed the possibility of layoffs resulting from redundancies after the merger, saying they could rely on good sector growth to minimize downsizing.

8.   Top Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives downplayed the possibility of layoffs resulting from redundancies after the merger, saying they could rely on good sector growth to minimize downsizing.

9.   The executives downplayed the possibility of layoffs resulting from redundancies after the merger, saying they could rely on good sector growth to minimize downsizing.