11.   Chrysler also announced smaller production cutbacks during the two intervening weeks.

12.   Crude-oil prices have skyrocketed in recent weeks because of production cutbacks by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

13.   Each faces sliding market share in home markets, production cutbacks or plant closures.

14.   European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has warned an administration move could jeopardize international talks aimed at voluntary production cutbacks.

15.   For example, the rally in copper in the last month has been abetted by a series of announcements about production cutbacks.

16.   For the last month or so, Nike stock has been battered, in part because of hints of production cutbacks.

17.   Gasoline prices, for example, could tweak higher if recently announced production cutbacks announced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries hold.

18.   Indeed, despite government pledges that the recession will not deepen, analysts said Thursday that they expected further production cutbacks next year.

19.   Mazda said that most of the production cutback was aimed at cars exported to the United States.

20.   Maytag, another maker of home appliances, said that it had been forced to lay off hundreds of workers because of production cutbacks.