31.   There were reports of sudden sharp slowdowns in the sales of mainstay products like personal computers, automobiles, appliances and apparel.

32.   What Wall Street is worried about is a sharp slowdown in profit growth in the first quarter, and signs of more trouble ahead.

33.   While acknowledging a sharp economic slowdown, Greenspan did not say a recession was under way.

34.   Analysts said the sharp slowdown in the economy in the spring was helping to ease inflationary pressures at both the wholesale and retail levels.

35.   Analysts credited a sharp slowdown in economic growth this spring for cooling off inflationary pressures.

36.   At a regional level, economists project that Ontario and Quebec will be particularly affected by the sharp slowdown.

37.   But analysts said the expected sluggishness, due largely to trimming of excess business inventories that included a sharp slowdown in auto production, does not portend a recession.

38.   But it is yet to be seen how credit restrictions on imports alone will compensate for the sharp slowdown in exports and help limit the trade deficit.

39.   For the second consecutive quarter, Eastman Kodak Co. lowered its earnings projections to reflect a sharp slowdown in film sales it blamed largely on a slowing U.S. economy.

40.   Further hit by a credit crunch, a sharp economic slowdown has already set in.