41.   Investors are now buying back the March contracts they sold earlier as a hedge against declining prices to avoid having to deliver a bond against it.

42.   Investors also worry that new semiconductor plants being built by Motorola and most of its rivals in that business will lead to over-capacity and declining prices.

43.   It would be the sixth consecutive month of increases in the feedlot herd as declining feed prices made it more profitable to fatten cattle for slaughter.

44.   It said it has stepped up the pace of rationalization to cope with declining prices.

45.   Job losses were the greatest in the manufacturing, retail and wholesale industries, where corporate restructuring, declining prices and sagging demand have hit hardest.

46.   Like the rest of the chemicals industry, BASF was hit by declining prices for its products.

47.   Mutual funds keep cash on hand to handle redemptions and to guard against declining prices.

48.   Nomura Financial Research Institute last week downgraded the Japanese semiconductor industry, and Hitachi and Fujitsu in particular, because of declining prices for memory chips.

49.   Nomura Financial Research Institute last week downgraded the Japanese semiconductor industry and Hitachi and Fujitsu in particular because of declining prices for memory chips.

50.   On the other hand, the deal still requires a shareholder vote and declining stock prices are prompting worries the deal could get hung up.