11.   During his first term, Menem stabilized the economy, which was plagued by runaway inflation, resulting in five years of unprecedented growth and popularity.

12.   Fiscal discipline helped Peru slay runaway inflation, while the capture of Shining Path rebel leaders enhanced its political stability.

13.   For the first time in a decade, prices in Brazil, which once defined runaway inflation, are poised to fall this month.

14.   Franco was part of a tight-knit group of economists who created the real and devised a program to tame runaway inflation in Brazil.

15.   He also tamed runaway inflation with a peso-dollar convertibility plan.

16.   Higher output per worker helps businesses cut costs and makes runaway inflation less likely, economists say.

17.   In Germany, runaway inflation and the two world wars twice destroyed the entire life savings that earlier generations had counted on to pay for their retirements.

18.   In part, it was supposed to make up for limits on worker salaries imposed to fight runaway inflation.

19.   It lowers the target if an economic slowdown appears a greater threat than runaway inflation.

20.   It would take another decade and the arrival of runaway inflation to bring consumer debt into the mainstream.