41.   Japanese bonds were little changed amid concern the government may take more action to boost the ailing economy.

42.   Mexican Finance Secretary Guillermo Ortiz stormed New York last week to bolster confidence in the ailing economy.

43.   Prime Minister Jean Chretien encouraged business people to look beyond the separatist politics of Quebec province and invest in the ailing Montreal economy.

44.   Promoters promised thousands of temporary jobs and the ripple effect of millions of dollars injected into an ailing local economy.

45.   Russia contends that as its ailing economy improves, Baltic concerns about a possible threat from Russia will evaporate.

46.   Rosenblum, who flew home to Dallas from St. Louis, sees the tone and tenor of the country as a strength, even for the ailing economy.

47.   Reforms designed to help the ailing economy also boosted the currency.

48.   Stocks were little changed as concern about the ailing Japanese economy offset optimism about an auto trade accord between the U.S. and Japan.

49.   Stocks were little changed as concern about the ailing Japanese economy offset gains in auto shares triggered by a Japan-U.S. auto trade accord.

50.   Summers said the agreement will help ailing Asian economies by freeing the flow of capital.