31.   Although banks will likely see earnings growth falling as higher interest rates reduces loan demand, stock prices at many banks have dropped faster than potential profit growth.

32.   Although high-tech solutions may ultimately reduce staffing demands, they require funds for construction, installation and training.

33.   Analysts speculate that slowing growth in the Far East could easily cut U.S. growth by as much as half a percentage point and reduce demand for Canadian exports.

34.   And researchers are working with fuel cells to reduce our demand for gasoline even further.

35.   And Timken Co., which makes bearings for rail cars, has installed lifts that reduce the demands on its aging workers to hoist boxes of bearings.

36.   Any reduction in demand would come at a time when overseas buyers already have reduced their demand for U.S. grain.

37.   As online resources grow, analysts say, they could reduce the demand for traditional services and force lawyers to lower fees.

38.   Asian countries that raise their interest rates to defend their currencies will reduce domestic demand and produce goods for export to the U.S. that can be sold more cheaply.

39.   At some point, higher retail prices could reduce consumer demand for coffee, traders said.

40.   At the same time, falling currencies and slower growth across Asia are reducing demand for metals, traders said.