11.   Like many of his colleagues, he said he was deeply worried not just about his own business but the Thai economy as a whole.

12.   Prices are not affected by the shaky Thai economy, the owners say, because the captains and sailboat expenses have always been paid in U.S. currency.

13.   Some investors, however, came away from the New York meeting saying the Thai economy is sound.

14.   The finance company closures, though long expected, will nonetheless ripple across the Thai economy.

15.   The rupiah is likely to be volatile so long as questions about the Thai economy remain, traders said.

16.   The Thai economy is still shrinking, but Clinton administration officials said the worst appeared to be over.

17.   The Thai economy is struggling with bad debts to developers, an export slump and the slowest growth in a decade.

18.   The Thai economy shows signs of stabilizing.

19.   The Thai economy, after more than a decade of double-digit growth, has slumped this year as a financial crisis triggered by a real estate bust gathered hold.

20.   The Thai economy, however troubled, now dominates Laos, which America bombed to box in the Vietnamese, and where it armed anti-communist hill people.