11.   The factory sector is now mired in its worst downturn in a generation.

12.   The stock market, battered all week, showed new signs of life Friday, rallying late to put a temporary cap on the worst downturn in two years.

13.   A handful of smaller, scrappier airlines are emerging battered but not beaten in the worst downturn in the history of the airline industry.

14.   Argentina is suffering its worst downturn in memory.

15.   Despite a robust U.S. economy, the agriculture sector is suffering through its worst downturn in more than a decade.

16.   Japan is struggling to bail out of its worst downturn since World War II and companies are reducing staffs in a campaign to trim costs and regain competitiveness.

17.   The government ran newspaper ads defending the law that it said would help pull the economy out of its worst downturn in years.

18.   But Nemoto questioned the focus on conventional public works spending to boost the economy, suffering from its worst downturn in half a century.

19.   Singaporeans desperately seeking jobs while their affluent southeast Asian economy is going through its worst downturn are willing to bare all for cash, the Sunday Times reported.