11.   Investors such as Nisbet are cheered by signs inflation is laying low, which means bonds will hold more of their value.

12.   So I borrowed a phone to make my call to work and sadly put away my empowering technology, laid low by a battery.

13.   The battered party is nursing its wounds while nervously eyeing the president who laid it low.

14.   The rally fueled rumors that Tudjman, already laid low by suspected stomach cancer, may be losing control.

15.   This year European bonds and currencies laid Horseman low.

16.   Toting unstamped passports and laying as low as they can, American businessmen are scouting Cuba.

17.   But the England skipper was laid low by a stomach ailment, forcing him to send the day convalescing as the visitors skipped practice for the second successive day.

18.   Milosevic keeps them guessing, laying low and pursuing routine business such as receiving a provincial Chinese Communist delegation on Friday.

19.   No one, certainly not the IMF, predicted that Asia could be laid so low by a bout of currency speculation, no matter how massive.

20.   Separately, the Vatican said John Paul would make his next public appearance on Sunday, after being laid low by the flu this week.