31.   Unless we halt the slide, the United States risks losing its position of world financial leadership.

32.   UST Inc. said it will introduce a discount moist snuff brand called Red Seal in an effort to halt its slide in the U.S. market.

33.   Whether the slide toward a repeat of the Great Depression can be halted without any positive effort from the government remains to be seen.

34.   Without Nailon, it lost in overtime, lost two nights later at Tulsa and dropped two more conference games before it could halt the slide.

35.   Yet some say its climb may be checked by speculation that the Bank of Japan will buy yen to halt its slide.

36.   Even last week, Anwar had said that Malaysia would have to revise its growth target but would try to halt a slide into recession.

37.   Japanese stock prices halted their slide Tuesday morning as institutional investors stepped in to pick up bargains.

38.   Malaysia will revise its growth target but try to halt a slide into recession, Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday.

39.   Neither the government nor the Central Bank has announced a plan to halt the slide of the ruble.

40.   Not even a central bank debt-swap intervention in the early afternoon was able to halt the slide.