11.   Corporate profits may dip and job losses might rise slightly, but the landing would be soft enough to avoid negative growth and a more severe downturn.

12.   Despite the severe downturn, Korea remains the third top supplier of foreign adoptees.

13.   Except in the midst of a severe downturn, the many new jobs the economy is constantly creating almost always outnumber the old ones being destroyed.

14.   Greenspan has already cut U.S. interest rates in the hope of pre-empting a severe downturn.

15.   In other countries, expensive restaurants are invariably hit hard by the kind of severe economic downturn currently being experienced here as analysts warn of a full-scale recession ahead.

16.   It is, for example, the leading agency company in Australia, a market that has been suffering a severe downturn in the last year.

17.   Millions of Americans have experienced only sunny days in the market, and it is difficult to predict how they will react to a severe downturn.

18.   Nucor has cut steel prices four times since March, sending steel stocks tumbling amid fears of a severe downturn.

19.   Our government would be a major liability during a severe economic downturn.

20.   Steel prices have dropped by about one-third this year as manufacturing industries have tumbled into a severe downturn.