11.   The company, which is cutting jobs and expenses in response to a global economic slump, is the leading tractor supplier in both countries.

12.   The risks are intensified by signs of an incipient synchronized global economic slump.

13.   With luck and some skill, a global slump can be avoided.

14.   Profits at Japanese chipmakers have been hurt by plunging semiconductor prices amid the global slump in demand for computers and other electronics equipment.

15.   A new study, however, says global slumps are much more common.

16.   A new study says global slumps are much more common.

17.   Alliances cutting across traditional loyalties among Japanese electronics companies are on the rise at a time when their profits have been battered by the global slump.

18.   At the same time, Poland has been hit by the global economic slump.

19.   Battered by the global slump, companies held back on investing more in plants and other facilities, said Taro Saito, economist at NLI Research Institute in Tokyo.

20.   Because U.S. economic growth continues to withstand the global economic slump, the central bank need not engineer a rate cut to stave off recession.