21.   That stellar performance has come in part because the Asian crisis is allowing Americans to buy foreign goods at low prices, keeping US inflation low.

22.   The Bank of France said a lower deficit gives it scope to lower interest rates, provided the franc remains stable and inflation low.

23.   The economy, as Greenspan emphasized in his testimony on Wednesday, is healthy, with inflation low and growth doing well.

24.   The investors began deciding that with inflation low and economic growth moderate, the selloff in bonds had probably gone too far, sparking more buying interest.

25.   The pact is supposed to create the enforcement mechanism that will be used to insure that countries keep their budget deficits and their inflation rates low.

26.   The rally in transportation issues stemmed from optimism that stocks will benefit from low interest rates as inflation remains low.

27.   The strong dollar, which for many years has helped keep inflation low and foreign vacations cheap, is weakening.

28.   The strong dollar has been an important ingredient of the record-breaking U.S. economic expansion by helping keep imports relatively inexpensive and inflation low.

29.   Third, with inflation low and most people relieved just to have a steady job, wage demands are modest and pay increases have been held down for years.

30.   True, with inflation low, most homeowners are not seeing the kind of frenzy that once turned even modest houses into speculative investment vehicles.